Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Aversion to man; dread of meeting persons.
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- noun A profound fear of
human beings , or of humansociety .
Etymologies
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anthropo- + -phobia. Both elements are borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (anthropos, "man, human") + φόβος (phobos, "fear") respectively.
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Examples
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That some cynic had lately bitten him by the brain -- and possibly a cynic himself in a nearly rabid stage of anthropophobia -- we might conclude as reasonably from consideration of the whole as from examination of the parts more especially and virulently affected: yet how much is here also of hyper-Platonic subtlety and sublimity, of golden and
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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For some of us, it is other people who inspire in our hearts the greatest palpitations -- anthropophobia.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word anthropophobia
JM was really looking forward to the Anthropophobia Society party but nobody turned up!
December 17, 2010