Timonization

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noun

The transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like Timon of Athens.

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Meanings

nounTimonization (plural Timonizations)

plural Timonizations

  1. The transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like Timon of Athens.

    [The second half of Melville's Pierre] describes his growing misanthropy, his "Timonization" …

    1996, Christopher Sten, The Weaver-God, He Weaves
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    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 …

    1965, Raymond Ronald Long, The Hidden Sun

    Synonyms: Timonizing

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like Timon of Athens.

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Timonizing

Origin

From Timonize + -ation, 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 Raymond Ronald Long in his study The Hidden Sun (1965).

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Translations

French timonisation, Timonisation
  • timonisationTransformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope
  • TimonisationTransformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope
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APA

Timonization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Timonization

MLA

“Timonization.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Timonization. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Timonization,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Timonization.

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