anthropophobian.
/ˌanθrəpəˈfəʊbɪə/, U.S. /ˌænθrəpəˈfoʊbiə/ Fear of, or aversion to, human beings.
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anthropophobia1799
phobanthropy1848
misandry1885
man-hating1892
1799 tr. I. Kant Metaphysic of Morals II. ii. 37 He, who, notwithstanding his good will to all men, flies from them, because he can find no complacency in them, may be named unsociable (an æsthetical misanthrope) and his shunning men anthropophobia [Ger. Anthropophobie].
1842 J. Laurie Homœopathic Domest. Med. i. 127 Sometimes the patient..is full of fear, and inclined to run away from the house, being afflicted with a sort of Anthropophobia.
1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare iii. 200 Possibly a cynic himself in a nearly rabid stage of anthropophobia.
1950 B. A. DeVoto World of Fiction i. 19 Novels whose content is so contemptuous of humanity that such a word as anthropophobia has to be invented to describe them.
1991 Music & Lett. 72 619 At the time this letter was written, Tchaikovsky was going through a period of anthropophobia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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