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Misanthropy vs Timonize - What's the difference?

misanthropy | timonize |

As a noun misanthropy

is hatred or dislike of people or mankind.

As a verb Timonize is

to behave as a misanthrope.

misanthropy

English

(wikipedia misanthropy)

Noun

  • Hatred or dislike of people or mankind.
  • * 1817, , 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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * Timonism (bitter misanthropy)

    Antonyms

    * (dislike of people) altruism, philanthropy

    Hyponyms

    * misandry * misogyny

    Derived terms

    * misanthrope * misanthropic * misanthropist

    timonize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Timonise

    Verb

    (Timoniz)
  • To behave as a misanthrope.
  • * 1713 , , The Gentleman Instructed , 5th edition:See OED.
    • I should be tempted to Timonize , and clap a Satyr upon our whole Species.
  • To cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism.
  • * 1852 , , Harper & Brothers, page 348:
    • And it may well be believed, that after the wonderful vital world-revelation so suddenly made to Pierre at the Meadows—a revelation which, at moments, in some certain things, fairly Timonized him—he had not failed to clutch with peculiar nervous detestation and contempt that ample parcel, containing the letters of his Biographico and other silly correspondents, which, in a less ferocious hour, he had filed away as curiosities.
  • * 1983 , Michael L. Ross, " Lawrence's letters", in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies , volume 3, number 1 (Summer 1983), page 58:
    • Lawrence's progressive alienation from his countrymen and finally from humanity – as it were, the "Timonizing " process that overcame him – went hand in hand with his estrangement from Russell.

    Derived terms

    * Timonization * Timonizing

    Related terms

    * Timonian * Timonism * Timonist

    References

    * OED, "Timon [feat. Timonian, Timonism, Timonist, Timonize]" in the (reproduced in a post) * SEG, "Timonize" in Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (supplement to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps), A supplementary English glossary , 1881 ( full text at Archive.org] or [http://books.google.com/books?id=6YkMAQAAIAAJ&q=timonize p. 656 at Google Books) * Notes: English eponyms