disanthropic
English
Etymology
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From disanthropy + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns), probably modelled after misanthropic. The word was coined by the Canadian literary critic Greg Garrard in a 2012 article published in SubStance: see the quotation.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌdɪsænˈθɹɒpɪk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌdɪsænˈθɹɑpɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɒpɪk
- Hyphenation: dis‧an‧throp‧ic
Adjective
disanthropic (comparative more disanthropic, superlative most disanthropic)
- (literary criticism) Of or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature. [from 2012]
- 2012, Greg Garrard, “Worlds Without Us: Some Types of Disanthropy”, in Ranjan Ghosh, editor, SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism: Issue 127: Globing the Earth: The New Eco-logics of Nature, volume 41, number 1, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, DOI:, ISSN 0049-2426, JSTOR 23261102, OCLC 643569666, page 41:
- There is, again, a peculiar beauty in the disanthropic moment. Of course, people are only temporarily absent—decentred from the narrative focus by war, rumbling just over the horizon—and by no means irredeemably banished.
- 2019, Kahn Faassen; Pieter Vermeulen, “The Weird and the Ineluctable Human”, in Collateral, number 15:
- In contemporary ecological mobilizations of the weird, by contrast, we observe a tendency to celebrate the weird as a feature of a disanthropic world—a world in which human agency has been absorbed by nonhuman forces.
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Hypernyms
- misanthropic
Translations
of or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature
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