Etymology

Timonean

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Today it means: Of a form of bitter misanthropy related to Timonism, like Timon of Athens. Full definition →

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Timonean · adjective1

From Timon + -ean, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used by John Toland in a letter (c. 1710–1722), apparently as a rare word or neologism, and by Thomas Amory in The Life of John Buncle (volume II; 1766), as a regular word.

Timonean · adjective2

From Timon + -ean, after a 3rd-century-BCE disciple of Pyrrho, Skeptic philosopher and satirist Timon of Phlius (c. 320 – c. 230 BC).

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