I don't necessarily support misanthropy.
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Misanthropy
//mɪˈsæn.θɹə.pi//
Synonyms for "misanthropy" (33 found)
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Related words (16)
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70 translations across 50 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- mizantropi noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μισανθρωπία noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Arabic
1 entries- بُغْض الْبَشَرِيَّة noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Armenian
2 entries- մարդատյացություն noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- միզանտրոպիա noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Asturian
1 entries- misantropía noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Basque
1 entries- misantropia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Belarusian
2 entries- мізантро́пія noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- чалавеканенаві́сніцтва noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Bulgarian
3 entries- мизантро́пия noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- човекомра́зие noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- човеконена́вистничество noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Catalan
1 entries- misantropia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Czech
1 entries- misantropie noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Danish
1 entries- misantropi noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Dutch
2 entries- mensenhaat noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- misantropie noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Esperanto
1 entries- mizantropio noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Estonian
1 entries- misantroopia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Finnish
2 entries- ihmisviha noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- misantropia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
French
1 entries- misanthropie noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Galician
1 entries- misantropía noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Georgian
2 entries- კაცთმოძულეობა noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- მიზანთროპია noun (negative view of people or mankind)
German
3 entries- Menschenfeindlichkeit noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- Menschenhass noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- Misanthropie noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Greek
1 entries- μισανθρωπία noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Hawaiian
1 entries- hoʻokae kanaka noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Hebrew
3 entries- מִיזַנְתְּרוֹפְּיָה noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- שִׂנְאַת אָדָם noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- שִׂנְאַת הַבְּרִיּוֹת noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Hungarian
1 entries- embergyűlölet noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Ido
1 entries- mizantropeso noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Irish
1 entries- míchaidreamhacht noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Italian
1 entries- misantropia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Japanese
1 entries- 人間不信 noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Latin
1 entries- misanthropia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Latvian
1 entries- mizantropija noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Lithuanian
1 entries- mizantropija noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Macedonian
2 entries- мизантро́пија noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- човекомра́зие noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Mingrelian
1 entries- მიზანთროპი noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- misantropi noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- misantropi noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Occitan
1 entries- misantropia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Persian
1 entries- مردمستیزی noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Polish
1 entries- mizantropia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Portuguese
1 entries- misantropia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Romanian
1 entries- mizantropie noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Russian
2 entries- мизантро́пия noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- человеконенави́стничество noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Samogitian
1 entries- mėzantruopėjė noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- mizantròpija noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- čovekomŕstvo noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- čovjekomŕstvo noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- мизантро̀пија noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Slovak
1 entries- mizantropia noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Slovene
2 entries- ljudomrzništvo noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- mizantropíja noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Spanish
1 entries- misantropía noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Swedish
1 entries- misantropi noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Turkish
1 entries- mizantropi noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Ukrainian
2 entries- людиноненави́сництво noun (negative view of people or mankind)
- мізантро́пія noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Uzbek
1 entries- odamsevmaslik noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Yiddish
1 entries- מיזאַנטראָפּיע noun (negative view of people or mankind)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows.
Source: tatoeba (7049319)
1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, Author's Preface Hence gloom and misanthropy have become the characteristics of the age in which we live, the solace of a disappointment that unconsciously finds relief only in the wilful exaggeration of its own despair.
Source: wiktionary
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
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