misogyny
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 8
/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
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(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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