English Explanatory Dictionary

Timonization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like Timon of Athens.

Word forms

Timonization Timonizations

Etymology

From Timonize + -ation, 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 Raymond Ronald Long in his study The Hidden Sun (1965).

Synonyms

Timonizing
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