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misology

(n): hatred of reasoning
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2 days ago qroqqa said:

Coined by Plato, by the look of it: Gignetai de ek tou autou tropou misologia te kai misanthropia. "Misology and misanthropy are born in the same way." (Phaedo 89d)

First used in German by Kant (1781), in English by Coleridge (1830s).

about 1 month ago yarb said:

"Oh, come off it, Jacqueline. What with your misology and my misoneism---"

- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola

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