disanthropic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌdɪsænˈθɹɒpɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌdɪsænˈθɹɑpɪk/ (General-American)
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.
Meanings
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(qualifier:literary criticism) Of or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature.
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.
2019, Kahn Faassen, Pieter Vermeulen, “The Weird and the Ineluctable Human”, in Collateral, number 15: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.
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most disanthropic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more disanthropic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
Translations (1)
fi disantrooppinen (of or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature)