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Misogyny

//mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    hatred of women wordnet

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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