The story
- Proto-Indo-European*mēwdʰ-
- Ancient Greekμῖσος (mîsos)
- English today-misia
From Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + -ia. First attested in the 1950s, in iatromisia (“hatred of doctors”). Devised as an alternative to the suffix -phobia, which etymologically (and clinically) denotes fear, though it is also widely used in English to denote hatred. Compare -misic (“hating something”), -misiac (“one who hates something”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.