Timonization
The English word “Timonization” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- The transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like Timon of Athens.
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).
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