? Obs. [f. Gr. ἀφιλάνθρωπ-ος not loving men: see A- pref. 14 and PHILANTHROPY.]
1. ‘Want of love to mankind.’ J.
2. Med. A morbid state of melancholy in which solitude is preferred to society; anthropophobia.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., among physicians, denotes the state or disorder, wherein a person has an unnatural disrelish for mirth and society, and indulges solitude, and melancholy.
