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feminism

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English

Woman suffrage headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland--A, 1912.
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Etymology

From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning "the state of being feminine." Sense of "advocacy of women's rights" is from 1895.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/
  • Hyphenation: fem‧in‧ism
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

feminism (countable and uncountable, plural feminisms)

  1. (obsolete) The state of being feminine; femininity. [from 1851; less common after 1895]
    • 1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume II, page 105:
      His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.
  2. A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
    • 1926 November 27, “The Talk of the Town”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, page 17:
      Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand...
    • 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x:
      There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural feminisms, for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority feminisms, themselves far from homogenous.
    • 2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
      Ooh! “Even the ladies!” #feminism #confedera-she !

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Estonian

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Noun

feminism (genitive feminismi, partitive feminismi)

  1. feminism

Declension

Declension of feminism (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative feminism feminismid
accusative nom.
gen. feminismi
genitive feminismide
partitive feminismi feminisme
feminismisid
illative feminismi
feminismisse 		feminismidesse
feminismesse
inessive feminismis feminismides
feminismes
elative feminismist feminismidest
feminismest
allative feminismile feminismidele
feminismele
adessive feminismil feminismidel
feminismel
ablative feminismilt feminismidelt
feminismelt
translative feminismiks feminismideks
feminismeks
terminative feminismini feminismideni
essive feminismina feminismidena
abessive feminismita feminismideta
comitative feminismiga feminismidega

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French féminisme.

Noun

feminism n (uncountable)

  1. feminism

Declension

Declension of feminism
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative feminism feminismul
genitive-dative feminism feminismului
vocative feminismule

Swedish

Noun

feminism c

  1. feminism

Declension

Declension of feminism
nominative genitive
singular indefinite feminism feminisms
definite feminismen feminismens
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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