Timonization

Etymology
, from the 5th-century BC person (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, Aristophanes), possibly by way of 's play  (c. 1607). Used by Raymond Ronald Long in his study The Hidden Sun (1965).

Noun

 * 1) The transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like.
 * 2) * 1965, Raymond Ronald Long, The Hidden Sun:
 * Among these lesser tragic influences the misanthropic concept of Timonization which seemed to obsess Melville so, and which has its origin in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, is mentioned twice in Pierre [...]
 * 1) * 1996, Christopher Sten, The Weaver-God, He Weaves:
 * [The second half of Melville's Pierre] describes his growing misanthropy, his "Timonization" [...]

Translations

 * French: timonisation (regular), Timonisation (rare)