What's the difference between misanthropist and misanthropy?

Misanthropist


Definition:

  • (n.) A misanthrope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clement is Vladislav, an 862-year-old ladykiller, Waititi is Viago, a 379-year-old people-pleaser, and they’re joined by Petyr (Ben Fransham), an 8,000-year-old Nosferatu-like misanthropist and Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), an ex-Nazi vampire who, at just 183 years of age, is a bit gauche.

Misanthropy


Definition:

  • (n.) Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
  • (2) Maybe violent impulses now get pushed elsewhere, as evidenced by the apparent epidemic of teenage online bullying and the great firestorms of misanthropy that roar across Twitter.
  • (3) All the children presented psychological alterations, especially misanthropy and shyness.
  • (4) Misanthropy and pessimism (those aspects that gave me such satisfaction 40 years ago) glint through the fabric of the novel, but they signal a call to vigilance rather than defeat.
  • (5) How I connected with my autistic son through video games Read more Since my boy got his diagnosis, I flinch every time I hear these assumptions about someone who is a bit geeky having Asperger’s (a name for people with high-functioning autism), or about someone’s misanthropy in the workplace meaning they are “on the spectrum”, or the idea that all autistic people can reel off complicated long division or recite Qantas flight schedules like Rain Man.
  • (6) Walter, in particular, whose fear of global over-population is tinged with misanthropy, gives solitude his best shot.
  • (7) Criterion measures of loneliness, depression, anxiety, neuroticism, psychoticism, misanthropy, locus of control, tendency to dissimulate, and measures of relationship with parents, peers, and academic achievement were obtained.
  • (8) Ihave lived in Britain long enough to know that enthusiasm and cheerleading will never get you much credibility here – deprecation, misanthropy and a dash of inverse snobbery are the far cooler attitudes to adopt – so I apologise for the upcoming expression of total and unabashed positivity: there are so many brilliant films around at the moment.
  • (9) The director's misanthropy and pessimism are already baked in: "Gentlemen of the court," says Kirk Douglas, in a line that could plausibly recur in any subsequent Kubrick movie, "there are times when I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race, and this is one of them."
  • (10) Twain outlived his adored wife and three of his four children, which might put his supposed misanthropy and bitterness at the end of his life in perspective.
  • (11) "USE WELL THY FREEDOM" reads a wall engraving at Patty's daughter's university, but few people do use it well and the cost of failure is destructive: "The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage."
  • (12) Yanis Varoufakis describes it as “a manual for emancipation by means of the only weapon we have against orchestrated misanthropy: constructive disobedience”.
  • (13) This study tested the hypotheses that perceptions of childhood dissatisfaction with parents are associated with higher scores on measures of intensity and chronicity of loneliness, anxiety, neuroticism, psychoticism, misanthropy, and external locus of control and lower scores on measures of self-esteem and sociability.