Meaning of phobanthropy | Babel Free

Definitions

A morbid dread of humankind.

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Examples

“Surely I need⟳ not point⟳ out to you the egregious egoism, the utter selfishness of the anarchists. Why, their pretended philanthropy is really phobanthropy, that would be monstrous were it not so insane.”

“After that I was afraid of Aino and Karl, I was more and more afraid as the days passed and as I fought up out of the mistiness and fever into strength and clarity of mind⟳, convalescing. There was a return⟳ of my old phobanthropy. I had fled people, I had come⟳ to the wilderness in preference to any further effort to establish⟳ an amicable destiny in a society that abhorred me.”

“Very soon the cause of his phobanthropy becomes clear. He not only feels inferior to and ashamed before his fellow-country-men because of the failure in his studies and evades them as much as possible on account of this but he also lives in a world of perverted phantasies, which he himself feels to be filthy and painful.”

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