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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] not loving man;

ἀ

priv. + [GREEK] to love + [GREEK] man.]

Want of love to mankind; – the opposite of philanthropy.

Coxe.

Noun.

[of a neg. and to love, and man.]

Want of love to mankind. In medicine, the first stage of melancholy, when solitude is preferred to society.