sexism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English sex

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English sexism

From sex + -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛksɪzm̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sexism (countable and uncountable, plural sexisms)

1. The belief that people of one sex (or gender) are inherently different from those of another sex, and generally that one sex is superior to others.

   The notion that either gender is superior is sexism.

2. Discrimination against, or different treatment of, people on the basis of sex or gender, including the expectation that people should adhere to stereotypical social roles (gender roles) based on sex; (in particular, especially) discrimination against women.

   The fact that there is only one woman in a management position in that company makes it easy to believe that sexism runs rampant there.

   The sexism of making and promoting violent films for men and romantic comedies for women.

   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Dati launched a blistering attack on the prime minister, François Fillon, under whom she served as justice minister, accusing him of sexism, elitism, arrogance and hindering the political advancement of ethnic minorities.

   • 2024 September 3, Noor Al-Sibai, “Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High Testosterone”, in The Byte‎^[2]:

     Beyond the glaring sexism inherent in suggesting that women's brains are so different from men's that they can't think properly, Musk lending credence to this dogshit hypothesis is incredibly goofy given that he and his audience of supposedly "high-T" men seem far more likely to fall in line with the sort of groupthink the original post references in such pseudo-phrenological terms.

Coordinate terms

• ableism
• ageism
• bigotry
• chauvinism
• discrimination
• enbyphobia
• genderism
• heterosexism
• homophobia
• misandry
• misogyny
• racism
• religionism
• transphobia

Derived terms

• antisexism
• cissexism
• crypto-sexism
• cybersexism
• ethnosexism
• exorsexism
• heterosexism
• intersexism
• monosexism
• neurosexism
• nonsexism
• retrosexism
• reverse sexism

Related terms

• sex
• sexist

Translations

discrimination based on sex or gender

• Afrikaans: seksisme
• Albanian: seksizëm m
• Armenian: սեռական խտրականություն (seṙakan xtrakanutʻyun), սեքսիզմ (sekʻsizm)
• Belarusian: сэксі́зм m (seksízm)
• Bulgarian: секси́зъм m (seksízǎm)
• Catalan: sexisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性別歧視 / 性别歧视 (zh) (xìngbié qíshì)

• Czech: sexismus (cs) m, sexizmus (cs) m
• Danish: sexisme (da) c
• Dutch: seksisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: seksismo (eo)
• Estonian: seksism
• Finnish: seksismi (fi)
• French: sexisme (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: seksisme

• Galician: sexismo m
• Georgian: სექსიზმი (seksizmi)
• German: Sexismus (de) m
• Greek: σεξισμός (el) m (sexismós)
• Hebrew: אַפְלָיָה מִינִית f (aflayá minít), מִינָנוּת f (minanút), סֶקְסִיזְם m (seksízm)
• Hindi: लिंगवाद m (liṅgvād)
• Hungarian: szexizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: kynjamismunun
• Ido: sexuismo (io)
• Irish: gnéasachas m, gnéasaíochas m
• Italian: sessismo (it) m
• Japanese: 性差別 (ja) (せいさべつ, seisabetsu)
• Korean: 성차별 (ko) (seongchabyeol)
• Latin: sexismus m
• Macedonian: секси́зам m (seksízam)
• Norman: sexisme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sexisme m

• Persian: جنسیت‌گرایی (jensit-garâyi)
• Polish: seksizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: sexismo (pt) m
• Romanian: sexism n
• Russian: секси́зм (ru) m (sɛksízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сексизам m

  Latin: seksizam (sh) m

• Slovak: sexizmus m
• Slovene: seksizem m
• Spanish: sexismo (es) m
• Swedish: sexism (sv) c
• Thai: ลัทธิกีดกันทางเพศ (lát-tí gèet-gan-taang-pâyt)
• Ukrainian: секси́зм m (seksýzm)
• Vietnamese: phân biệt giới tính

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Translations to be checked

• Thai: ^{(please verify)} เพศนิยม (pâyt ní-yom)

Anagrams

• missex

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sexisme. By surface analysis, sex +‎ -ism.

Noun

sexism n (uncountable)

1. sexism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sexism	sexismul
genitive-dative	sexism	sexismului
vocative	sexismule

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sexism.

Noun

sexism c

1. sexism

Declension

Declension of sexism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sexism	sexisms
	definite	sexismen	sexismens
plural	indefinite	sexismer	sexismers
	definite	sexismerna	sexismernas

Related terms

• sexistisk (“sexist”)

See also

• kön

References

• “sexism”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “sexism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken