English Explanatory Dictionary

-misia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Hatred; dislike; aversion.

Word forms

-misia

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mēwdʰ-der. Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos)der. Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. English -ia English -misia From Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + -ia. First attested in the 1950s, in iatromisia (“hatred of doctors”). Devised as an alternative to the suffix -phobia, which etymologically (and clinically) denotes fear, though it is also widely used in English to denote hatred. Compare -misic (“hating something”), -misiac (“one who hates something”).

Antonyms

-philia

Related words

miso- mis-

Derived words

automisia Islamisia religiomisia
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