misogyny

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/ (UK)
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/mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/ (UK) · /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/ (US)

Definition of misogyny

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
    “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.”
    “His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]”
    “[…] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.

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