Word Meanings - APHILANTHROPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.

MANKIND
1. The human race; man, taken collectively. The proper study of mankind is man. Pore. 2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. Lev. xviii. 22. 3. Human feelings; humanity. B. Jonson.
OPPOSITENESS
The quality or state of being opposite.
OPPOSITELY
In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
PHILANTHROPY
Love to mankind; benevolence toward the whole human family; universal good will; desire and readiness to do good to all men; -- opposed to misanthropy. Jer. Taylor.
OPPOSITE
1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
APHILANTHROPY
Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.
HUMANKIND
Mankind. Pope.
WOMANKIND
The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne.
THEOPHILANTHROPY
Theophilanthropism. Macaulay.