-misia
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
From Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + -ia. First attested in the 1950s, in iatromisia (“hatred of doctors”). Devised as an alternative to the suffix -phobia, which etymologically (and clinically) denotes fear, though it is also widely used in English to denote hatred. Compare -misic (“hating something”), -misiac (“one who hates something”).
Suffix
-misia
Derived terms
English terms suffixed with -misia
- automisia
- Islamisia
- religiomisia