Contextualizebeta

philanthropy

noun
/fɪˈlæn.θɹə.piː/UK/fɪˈlæn.θɹə.pi/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin philanthrōpia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φιλανθρωπία (philanthrōpía). By surface analysis, phil- + -anthropy.

  1. derived from φιλανθρωπία
  2. borrowed from philanthrōpia

Definitions

  1. Benevolent altruism with the intention of increasing the well-being of humankind.

    • Secondly, Another excellent Diſpoſition in Chriſt, is his Love, not only his Phylanthropy, or good Will he bears to all men, and the Deſire he hath of their Salvation, Ezek[iel] 33. 11.

  2. Charitable giving, charity.

    • As public funding is reduced, we depend increasingly on private philanthropy.

  3. A philanthropic act.

    • His tombstone lists his various philanthropies.
    • Her [María Micaela's] philanthropies included large sums to the Colegio de Propaganda Fide in Pachuca, of which she was the guardian and for which she purchased the relics of Santa Colomba.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A charitable foundation.

      • the Rockefeller philanthropies

The neighborhood

Derived

aphilanthropy, e-philanthropy, filmanthropy, microphilanthropy, philanthrocapitalism, philanthrope, philanthropic, philanthropical, philanthropically, philanthropinism, philanthropinist, philanthropise, philanthropize, philanthropist, philanthropoid

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at philanthropy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01philanthropy02charity03benevolence04altruistic05beneficent06philanthropic

A definitional loop anchored at philanthropy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at philanthropy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA