miso-, mis-, -misia +
(Greek: hate, hater, hatred; disgust for; revulsion of; for example, a man by a woman or women by men; an antonym of "love, fondness for")
Don't confuse this miso-, mis- unit with the following units:
mis-, "bad, wrong";
miss-, -miss, -mis- "send, throw".
misogamist
Someone who hates marriage.
A man who never Mrs. any woman.
—Evan Esar. Esar’s Comic Dictionary
misogamous
A hatred of or aversion to marriage.
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor
misogamy, misogamic
1. A hatred of marriage; hating marriage or having an aversion to marriage.
2. Hatred of marriage, often based on an unresolved Oedipus complex. To some psychiatric patients, and especially schizophrenics, marriage is equated with incest and misogamy is their defense against it.
The mental bias that matrimony, not money, is the root of all evil.
—Evan Esar. Esar’s Comic Dictionary
misogelastic
A hatred of laughter.
misogrammar
The hatred of having to learn grammar or even of learning in general.
misogrammatist
Someone who hates having to learn letters, grammar (structures of language); or learning in general.
misogynist, misogyne
Someone who hates women; a hatred of women.
A man with a miss-shun in the world.
A woman-hater to whom Hades is for ladies.
—Evan Esar. Esar’s Comic Dictionary
misogyny, misogynic, misogynous, misogynism
1. A hatred of or aversion to women.
2. In psychiatry, when the hatred of women is part of a morbid mental state, it may be associated with a wide variety of nosologic entities. The most common explanation for the condition has to do with the events of childhood, particularly those relating to the parents.
3. In psychiatry, abhorrence of women that is expressed alike by women and men and is often a reflection of a homosexual conflict.
4. In psychiatry, passive homosexual males may hold women in severe contempt, as a reaction to disappointment with their own masculinity.
misologia, misologism
1. Hatred of speaking or arguing. One patient with catatonic schizophrenia, for example, remained mute lest the world be destroyed through her speaking.
2. An aversion or hatred of talking or of mental activity.
misologist, misologue
1. A hater of excessive discussions or of arguments.
2. A hater of reason, enlightenment, or discussion.
misology
1. Hatred of reason, discussion, or arguments.
2. Hatred of learning or knowledge.
misomania
1. Characterized by delusions of persecution (belief that everybody hates the subject).
2. In psychiatry, the syndrome characterized by delusions of persecution and hatred.
3. A form of mania in which the patient hates everyone and everything.
misomaniac
1. In psychiatry, a person who is suffering with the mental delusion of persecution and hatred.
2. Someone who hates everyone and everything.
misomater
A hater of one’s mother.
misomath
A hater of mathematics and/or science.
Related "hate, hatred" word sources:
odi-;
stygio-.
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