"misanthropy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: misanthropies [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μισανθρωπία (misanthrōpía), from μισάνθρωπος (misánthrōpos), from μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”). The word is analysable as miso- + -anthropy. Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|μισανθρωπία}} Ancient Greek μισανθρωπία (misanthrōpía), {{affix|en|miso-|-anthropy}} miso- + -anthropy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} misanthropy (countable and uncountable, plural misanthropies)
  1. A negative view or hatred of the human race. Wikipedia link: misanthropy Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: Timonism (english: bitter misanthropy) Hyponyms: disanthropy, misandry, misogyny, misopedia Derived forms: misanthrope, misanthropic, misanthropist Related terms: anthropophobia Translations (negative view of people or mankind): mizantropi [feminine] (Albanian), بُغْض الْبَشَرِيَّة (buḡḍ al-bašariyya) [masculine] (Arabic), միզանտրոպիա (mizantropia) (Armenian), մարդատյացություն (mardatyacʻutʻyun) (Armenian), misantropía [feminine] (Asturian), misantropia (Basque), чалавеканенаві́сніцтва (čalavjekanjenavísnictva) [feminine] (Belarusian), мізантро́пія (mizantrópija) [feminine] (Belarusian), мизантро́пия (mizantrópija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), човеконена́вистничество (čovekonenávistničestvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), човекомра́зие (čovekomrázie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), misantropia [feminine] (Catalan), misantropie [feminine] (Czech), misantropi [common-gender] (Danish), misantropie [feminine] (Dutch), mensenhaat [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), mizantropio (Esperanto), misantroopia (Estonian), misantropia (Finnish), ihmisviha (Finnish), misanthropie [feminine] (French), misantropía [feminine] (Galician), კაცთმოძულეობა (ḳactmoʒuleoba) (Georgian), მიზანთროპია (mizantroṗia) (Georgian), Menschenhass [masculine] (German), Menschenfeindlichkeit [feminine] (German), Misanthropie [feminine] (German), μισανθρωπία (misanthropía) [feminine] (Greek), hoʻokae kanaka (Hawaiian), מִיזַנְתְּרוֹפְּיָה (mizantrópya) [feminine] (Hebrew), embergyűlölet (Hungarian), mizantropeso (Ido), míchaidreamhacht [feminine] (Irish), misantropia [feminine] (Italian), 人間不信 (ningen fushin) (english: distrust) (alt: にんげんふしん) (Japanese), misanthropia [feminine] (Latin), mizantropija [feminine] (Latvian), mizantropija [feminine] (Lithuanian), човекомра́зие (čovekomrázie) [neuter] (Macedonian), мизантро́пија (mizantrópija) [feminine] (Macedonian), მიზანთროპი (mizantroṗi) (Mingrelian), misantropi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), misantropi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), misantropia [feminine] (Occitan), مردمستیزی (mardom-setizi) (Persian), mizantropia [feminine] (Polish), misantropia [feminine] (Portuguese), mizantropie [feminine] (Romanian), человеконенави́стничество (čelovekonenavístničestvo) [neuter] (Russian), мизантро́пия (mizantrópija) [feminine] (Russian), mėzantruopėjė [feminine] (Samogitian), мизантро̀пија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), човекомр́ство [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), човјекомр́ство [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), mizantròpija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), čovekomŕstvo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), čovjekomŕstvo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), mizantropia [feminine] (Slovak), mizantropíja [feminine] (Slovene), ljudomrzništvo [neuter] (Slovene), misantropía [feminine] (Spanish), misantropi [common-gender] (Swedish), mizantropi (Turkish), людиноненави́сництво (ljudynonenavýsnyctvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), мізантро́пія (mizantrópija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), odamsevmaslik (Uzbek), מיזאַנטראָפּיע (mizantropye) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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          "text": "1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, Author's Preface\nHence gloom and misanthropy have become the characteristics of the age in which we live, the solace of a disappointment that unconsciously finds relief only in the wilful exaggeration of its own despair."
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          "ref": "2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:",
          "text": "According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.",
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          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
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          "roman": "čovekonenávistničestvo",
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          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
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          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "word": "mizantropeso"
        },
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "míchaidreamhacht"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "alt": "にんげんふしん",
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "distrust",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ningen fushin",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "word": "人間不信"
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        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "misanthropia"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mizantropija"
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        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "mizantropija"
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        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "čovekomrázie",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "човекомра́зие"
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        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "mizantrópija",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "мизантро́пија"
        },
        {
          "code": "xmf",
          "lang": "Mingrelian",
          "roman": "mizantroṗi",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "word": "მიზანთროპი"
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        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
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        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
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          "word": "misantropi"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "misantropia"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "mardom-setizi",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "word": "مردمستیزی"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mizantropia"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "misantropia"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mizantropie"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
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          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "человеконенави́стничество"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "mizantrópija",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "мизантро́пия"
        },
        {
          "code": "sgs",
          "lang": "Samogitian",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "mėzantruopėjė"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "мизантро̀пија"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "човекомр́ство"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "човјекомр́ство"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
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            "Roman",
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          "word": "mizantròpija"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
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          "word": "čovekomŕstvo"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "čovjekomŕstvo"
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        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mizantropia"
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        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mizantropíja"
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        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ljudomrzništvo"
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        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "misantropía"
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          "roman": "ljudynonenavýsnyctvo",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "людиноненави́сництво"
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          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "word": "odamsevmaslik"
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          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "mizantropye",
          "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "מיזאַנטראָפּיע"
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        "misanthropy"
      ]
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}
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    {
      "word": "misanthropic"
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    }
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      "word": "disanthropy"
    },
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        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
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        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
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        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
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        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
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        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
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        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mingrelian translations",
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        "Terms with Occitan translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
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        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
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        "Terms with Sicilian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Uzbek translations",
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          "text": "1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, Author's Preface\nHence gloom and misanthropy have become the characteristics of the age in which we live, the solace of a disappointment that unconsciously finds relief only in the wilful exaggeration of its own despair."
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          "ref": "2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:",
          "text": "According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.",
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ar",
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      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
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      ],
      "word": "بُغْض الْبَشَرِيَّة"
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "mizantropia",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "միզանտրոպիա"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "mardatyacʻutʻyun",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
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    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropía"
    },
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      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
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      "word": "misantropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "čalavjekanjenavísnictva",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "чалавеканенаві́сніцтва"
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    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "mizantrópija",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мізантро́пія"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mizantrópija",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "мизантро́пия"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "čovekonenávistničestvo",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "човеконена́вистничество"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "čovekomrázie",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "човекомра́зие"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropia"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropie"
    },
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      "code": "da",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "misantropie"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "mizantropio"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "misantroopia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "misantropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "ihmisviha"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "misanthropie"
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    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropía"
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    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳactmoʒuleoba",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "კაცთმოძულეობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mizantroṗia",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "მიზანთროპია"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Menschenhass"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Menschenfeindlichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Misanthropie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "misanthropía",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μισανθρωπία"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "hoʻokae kanaka"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "mizantrópya",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "מִיזַנְתְּרוֹפְּיָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "embergyűlölet"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "mizantropeso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "míchaidreamhacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にんげんふしん",
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "distrust",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ningen fushin",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "人間不信"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "misanthropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mizantropija"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mizantropija"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "čovekomrázie",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "човекомра́зие"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "mizantrópija",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мизантро́пија"
    },
    {
      "code": "xmf",
      "lang": "Mingrelian",
      "roman": "mizantroṗi",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "მიზანთროპი"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropi"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mardom-setizi",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "مردمستیزی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mizantropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mizantropie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čelovekonenavístničestvo",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "человеконенави́стничество"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mizantrópija",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мизантро́пия"
    },
    {
      "code": "sgs",
      "lang": "Samogitian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mėzantruopėjė"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мизантро̀пија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "човекомр́ство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "човјекомр́ство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mizantròpija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "čovekomŕstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "čovjekomŕstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mizantropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mizantropíja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ljudomrzništvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "misantropía"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "misantropi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "mizantropi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ljudynonenavýsnyctvo",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "людиноненави́сництво"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mizantrópija",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мізантро́пія"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "word": "odamsevmaslik"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "mizantropye",
      "sense": "negative view of people or mankind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "מיזאַנטראָפּיע"
    }
  ],
  "word": "misanthropy"
}

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