womyn

noun

1. (rare)Feminist spelling of woman.

   “Summoning all my courage, I touched and kissed a womyn for the first time. I cannot describe what I felt at that moment.”

   “I dug with my bare hands through the bullshit where beneath I discovered a womyn. She was an incredibly angry womyn, but a womyn nonetheless.”

2. (rare)Feminist spelling of women.

   “And I'm sure you know that so many straight womyn are so miserable that "going to the shrink" has become their major occupation, if they can afford it.”

   “Likewise, simply dismissing post-operative male-to-female transsexuals as "men," and making an artificial distinction between "women" and "womyn" neither justifies their policy, nor eliminates any of the substantive issues involved.”

   “Since the publication of the Random House Webster's College Dictionary (RHWCD) in the spring of 1991, no single dictionary entry has been the subject of more discussion, criticism, and controversy than the entry womyn (an alternative spelling of women).”