Crypto-sexism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Sexism that is unofficial and unobvious. rare, uncountable

    "This is in no way a manifestation of crypto-sexism but a simple consequence of the direction of the precession of the equinoxes."

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"This is in no way a manifestation of crypto-sexism but a simple consequence of the direction of the precession of the equinoxes."

Etymology

From crypto- + sexism.

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