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Timonist vs Timonization - What's the difference?

timonist | timonization |

As nouns the difference between timonist and timonization

is that timonist is a sort of bitter misanthrope related to timonism, like (timon of athens) while timonization is the transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a timonist, like (timon of athens).

As an adjective timonist

is of a form of bitter misanthropy related to timonism, like (timon of athens).

timonist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sort of bitter misanthrope related to Timonism, like (Timon of Athens).
  • * 1590 , , Greene's Mourning Garment :See OED.
    • Yet was he not [...] such a Timonist , but hee would familiarly conuerse with his friends.'' ''[sic]
  • * 1602 , , (Satiromastix) :
    • I did it to retyre me from the world; And turne my Muse into a Timonist.'' ''[sic]
  • * 1988 , Paul Ollswang, "Cynicism":Paul Ollswang, "Cynicism: A Series of Cartoons on a Philosophical Theme", January 1988, page at official site; repr. in The Best Comics of the Decade 1980-1990 Vol. 1 , Seattle: (Fantagraphics Books), 1990, ISBN 1-56097-035-9, p. 23.
    • ''Cynicism'' is often contrasted with ''"Timonism"'' (cf. Shakespeare's ''Timon of Athens''). Cynics saw what people could be & were angered by what they had become; Timonist s felt humans were hopelessly stupid & uncaring by nature & so saw no hope for change.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a form of bitter misanthropy related to Timonism, like (Timon of Athens).
  • * 1988 , Maurice Charney, Hamlet's fictions'':Maurice Charney, ''Hamlet's fictions , Routledge, 1988, ISBN 0415007038, p. 154 at Google Books.
    • Marston poses as the Timonist malcontent satirist ready to excoriate the world for its follies.

    Synonyms

    * Timonean * Timonian

    Related terms

    * Timonism * Timonize

    References

    * OED, "Timon [feat. Timonian, Timonism, Timonist, Timonize]" in the (reproduced in a post) * SEG, "Timonist" 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=timonist p. 656 at Google Books) * WN, "Timonist" in Wordnik * Notes: English eponyms

    timonization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like (Timon of Athens).
  • * 1965 , Raymond Ronald Long, The Hidden Sun'':Raymond Ronald Long, ''The Hidden Sun: a study of the influence of Shakespeare on the creative imagination of Herman Meville , University of California, 1965, p. 157 at Google Books.
    • Among these lesser tragic influences the misanthropic concept of Timonization which seemed to obsess Melville so, and which has its origin in Shakespeare's ''Timon of Athens'', is mentioned twice in ''Pierre'' [...]
  • * 1996 , Christopher Sten, The Weaver-God, He Weaves'':Christopher Sten, ''The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the poetics of the novel'', Kent State University Press, 1996, ISBN 0873385373, Chapter Seven "The Divided Self: ''Pierre as Psychological Novel", p. 240 at Google Books.
    • [The second half of Melville's ''Pierre''] describes his growing misanthropy, his "Timonization " [...]

    Synonyms

    * Timonizing

    References