misology

American  

[mi-sol-uh-jee, mahy-] / mɪˈsɒl ə dʒi, maɪ- /

noun

1. distrust or hatred of reason or reasoning.

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misology British  

/ maɪ-, mɪˈsɒlədʒɪ /

noun

1. hatred of reasoning or reasoned argument

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Other Word Forms

• misologist noun

Etymology

Origin of misology

First recorded in 1825–35; miso- + -logy

Example Sentences

But a love of knowledge for itself, and for pure ends, would never produce such a misology, but only a love of it for base and unworthy purposes.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

The intended theme of the Faust is the consequences of a misology, or hatred and depreciation of knowledge caused by an originally intense thirst for knowledge baffled.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

It has been well said that the theme of the Faust is the consequence of a misology, or hatred of knowledge, resulting upon an original thirst for knowledge baffled.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

But this system is mere misology reduced to principles; and, what is the most absurd thing in this doctrine, the neglect of all scientific means is paraded as a peculiar method of extending our cognition.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow