Ăph'i-lān'thro-py, n.

(110), n. [Gr. ἀφιλάνθρωπος, not loving man, from ἀ priv., φιλεῖν, to love, and ἄνθρωπος, man.] Want of love to mankind; specifically (Med.), the first stage of melancholy, when solitude is preferred to society. Coxe.