Misogyny
//mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women. uncountable, usually
"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."
- 2 hatred of women wordnet
Example
More examples"The level of unbridled misogyny at the barbershop made me feel as if I had stepped back in time."
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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