Laggard vs Misanthropy - What's the difference?
laggard | misanthropy |
Hanging back; loitering.
* 1752 , Francis Gentleman and Ben Jonson,
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 66:
Hatred or dislike of people or mankind.
* 1817, , Author's Preface
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As nouns the difference between laggard and misanthropy
is that laggard is one who lags behind and takes more time than is necessary while misanthropy is hatred or dislike of people or mankind.As an adjective laggard
is hanging back; loitering.laggard
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Sejanus, A Tragedy, act 5, scene 1, page 54–55:
- But come let's wing our Steps with utmost Speed,
The swiftest Haste is laggard to the Deed.
- Between blinks Tommy saw Temple in the path, her body slender and motionless for a moment as though waiting for some laggard part to catch up.
Synonyms
* See alsomisanthropy
English
(wikipedia misanthropy)Noun
- 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.
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=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.}}
