antifeminism

English

Alternative forms

• anti-feminism

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)

Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.

English anti-

English feminism

English antifeminism

From anti- + feminism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæntiˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/, /ˌæntaɪ-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

antifeminism (countable and uncountable, plural antifeminisms)

1. Opposition to feminism.
   • 2019 June 8, Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Instead, they rallied around issues like free speech and antifeminism, portraying themselves as truth-telling rebels doing battle against humorless “social justice warriors.”

Antonyms

• feminism
• profeminism

Derived terms

• anti-antifeminism

Related terms

• antifeminist, anti-feminist
• antfeministic, anti-feministic

Translations

any belief antagonistic to feminism

• Catalan: antifeminisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反女權主義 / 反女权主义

• Czech: antifeminismus (cs) m, antifeminizmus (cs) m
• Danish: antifeminisme c
• Esperanto: kontraŭfeminismo
• Estonian: antifeminism
• Finnish: antifeminismi (fi)
• French: antiféminisme (fr) m
• Galician: antifeminismo m
• German: Antifeminismus m
• Hebrew: אנטי־פמיניזם
• Hungarian: antifeminizmus (hu)
• Ido: antifeminismo
• Indonesian: antifeminisme
• Italian: antifemminismo (it) m
• Japanese: 反フェミニズム
• Korean: 반여성주의 (banyeoseongjuui)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antifeminisme m

  Nynorsk: antifeminisme m

• Persian: آنتی‌فمینیسم
• Polish: antyfeminizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: antifeminismo m
• Russian: антифемини́зм (ru) m (antifeminízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: antifeminizam (sh) m
• Slovak: antifeminizmus m
• Spanish: antifeminismo (es) m
• Swedish: antifeminism c
• Telugu: స్త్రీవాద వ్యతిరేకత (strīvāda vyatirēkata)
• Turkish: feminizim karşıtlığı
• Ukrainian: антифеміні́зм m (antyfeminízm)
• Yiddish: אַנטי־פֿעמיניזם m (anti-feminizm)

See also

• postfeminism
• masculism