misogyny
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Etymology [edit]
From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunia) and μισογύνης (misogunēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miseō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunē, “woman”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /mɪˈsɒdʒ.ɪ.ni/, X-SAMPA: /mI"sQdZ.I.ni/
- (US) IPA: /mɪˈsɑːdʒ.ɪ.ni/, X-SAMPA: /mI"sA:dZ.I.ni/
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Noun [edit]
misogyny (usually uncountable; plural misogynies)
- Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
- 1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (ISBN 0762304839), page 29:
- Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.
- 1999, Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century (ISBN 0300076045), page 84:
- His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]
- 2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender (ISBN 0786420626), page 122:
- This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny. By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.
- 2006, Jack Holland, Misogyny: the world's oldest prejudice (ISBN 0786718234)
- 1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (ISBN 0762304839), page 29:
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Translations [edit]
hatred or contempt for women
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