What does "gynocentrism" mean?

An ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females.

What is a synonym for "gynocentrism"?

Common synonyms include: feminocentrism, feminocentrism.

Gynocentrism

noun

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Noun

1
An ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females. uncountable
"We Americans have not so much need to take his admonitions to heart as Continental Europeans, seeing that captious critics are prone to regard us as suffering rather from gynocentrism than anthropocentrism."

Synonyms

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feminocentrism feminocentrism

Antonyms

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androcentrism phallocentrism

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"We Americans have not so much need to take his admonitions to heart as Continental Europeans, seeing that captious critics are prone to regard us as suffering rather from gynocentrism than anthropocentrism."

Etymology

From gyno- + -centrism.

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