antimother

noun

Etymology

From anti- + mother.

  1. derived from *muþraz — “sediment
  2. inherited from *méh₂tēr
  3. inherited from *mōdēr
  4. inherited from *mōder
  5. inherited from mōdor
  6. inherited from moder
  7. prefixed as antimother — “anti + mother

Definitions

  1. A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.

    • The consent-to-pregnancy foundation runs the final risk of portraying women as antimothers, or monsters who kill their children.
    • These representations of antimothers, monster mothers, "other" mothers can be understood as one facet of a cultural drive to monitor mothers, regulate them...
    • As an extremely pregnant Xena declared at Corinth, "This baby is nothing compared to my empire!" Evil Xena was thus an antimother.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antimother. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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