disanthropic

English

Etymology

PIE word
*dwís

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)

1. (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, →JSTOR, →OCLC, 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^[1], 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.

Hypernyms

• misanthropic

Translations

of or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature

• Finnish: disantrooppinen