Timonist

发音

/ˈtaɪmənɪst/

词形变化

Timonists 复数 Timonists more Timonist 比较级 most Timonist 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A sort of bitter misanthrope related to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.

    Yet was he not … such a Timonist, but hee would familiarly conuerse with his friends. [sic]

    Cynicism is often contrasted with "Timonism" (cf. Shakespeare's Timon of Athens). Cynics saw what people could be & were angered by what they had become; Timonists felt humans were hopelessly stupid & uncaring by nature & so saw no hope for change.

adj.
  1. 1.

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

    Marston poses as the Timonist malcontent satirist ready to excoriate the world for its follies.

词源

From Timon + -ist, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes). Used by Robert Greene in his Greene's Mourning Garment (1590). (William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens is usually estimated c. 1607 and would not have influenced Greene; however, some consider the play could be one of Shakespeare's earliest, and could then have been Greene's source.)

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