misology
(maɪs-, mɪˈsɒlədʒɪ)
[ad. Gr. µῑσολογία (corresp. to µισόλογος hating reason): see miso- and -logy.]
Hatred of reason or discussion; also, hatred of learning or knowledge.
| 1833 Coleridge Table-t. 16 Feb, Misology, or hatred and depreciation of knowledge. 1847 Lewes Hist. Philos. (1853) 327 Bruno's scorn sprang from no misology. 1865 Grote Plato II. xxiii. 155 Tinged with misology, or the hatred of free argumentative discussion. |
So miˈsologist, misologue (ˈmaɪsəʊ-, ˈmɪsəʊlɒg), a hater of reason or discussion.
| 1866 M. P. W. Bolton Inquis. Philos. 89 ‘Let us not’, replies Socrates, ‘become misologues, as some persons become misanthropes’. 1871 Jowett Plato I. 438 As there are misanthropists or haters of men, there are also misologists or haters of ideas. 1873 Morley Struggle Nat. Educ. 66 What statesmanship is that which..invests its priests with a new function, and entrusts afresh a holy army of misologists with the control of national instruction? |