Timonean

Meanings

1. Of a form of bitter misanthropy related to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.

1. Pertaining or related to Timon of Phlius, his life, works, style, or ideas.

Etymology

From Timon + -ean, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used by John Toland in a letter (c. 1710–1722), apparently as a rare word or neologism, and by Thomas Amory in The Life of John Buncle (volume II; 1766), as a regular word.