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- Ancient Greek · derived fromμισανθρωπία
- English todaymisanthropy
From Ancient Greek μισανθρωπία (misanthrōpía), from μισάνθρωπος (misánthrōpos), from μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”). The word is analysable as miso- + -anthropy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.