I puzzled over today's "Word of the Day"
http://wordsmith.org/words/misology.html

misology (mi-SOL-uh-jee) noun

Hatred of logic or reason.

[From Greek miso- (hate) + -logy (science, study).]


This seems like an odd construction.

If "Biology" means "study of life" and "anthropology" means "study of humans" then wouldn't "misology" mean "Study of hatred"?

Digging in the dictionary I find there is precedent for the construction in words such as 'misogyny' (hatred of women), 'misanthropy' (hatred of humankind). These date back to the 17th century; wheras the various fields of study ending in "+ ology" date to the 19th century. So if precedence matters, then maybe the various fields of study should be renamed in the name of logic?

But I doubt the world will reorganize itself just to avoid conflict between 17th and 19th century words.

If I may offer a neologism, perhaps a less confusing word would be "misosophy" ? (Hatred of knowledge/wisdom?) And a willfully ignorant person would be a "misosophist?"