The story
PIE word *dwís From dis- (prefix meaning ‘against; not’) + -anthropy (suffix meaning ‘humanity’), modelled after misanthropy. The word was coined by the Canadian literary critic Greg Garrard in a 2012 article published in SubStance: see the quotation.
First known use, by meaning
- from 2012 A misanthropic desire for a world without human life, expressed in literature.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.