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Jenky

Does anyone know a word that means “a lack of faith in humanity” or a “general mistrusts of humankind”?

It’s been driving my husband nuts and he can’t think of the word and neither can I.

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Danny N

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paranoid.

lol

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Misanthropy

Misanthropy

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Anonymous
Misanthropy
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merrybodner
Misanthropy?
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waw1114
mis·an·thrope [míss’n thrp]

(plural mis·an·thropes) or mis·an·thro·pist [mi sánthrəpist] (plural mis·an·thro·pists)

noun

somebody who hates people: somebody who hates humanity, or who dislikes and distrusts other people and tends to avoid them

[Mid-16th century. < French < Greek misanthrōpos < misein "to hate" + anthrōpos "man"] Microsoft® Encarta® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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glimmerdark
I like “misanthropy” as well.

Dictionary.com defines as… “hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.”

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FN
traitorous, disloyal, unfaithful, treacherous

choose any; LOL

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yancychipper
cynic

cynical

cynicism

pessimist

pessimistic

captious

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