misozoic

misozoic

English

Etymology

miso- +‎ zoic

Adjective

misozoic (comparative more misozoic, superlative most misozoic)

1. (rare) life-hating
   • 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation

     The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.

   • 1997, Harry Berger, ‎Peter Erickson, Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare

     The Duke urges him to prepare for death and to desire it because of life's worthlessness. His image of life is hyperbolically misozoic because he is practicing — and getting off on — homiletics: […]