feminism
nounEtymology
From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). In the original sense of “women's movement or advocacy”, the French word was probably directly derived from fēmina, as if from Neo-Latin feminismus. First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning “the state of being feminine”. Sense of “advocacy of women's rights” is from 1895.
Definitions
The state of being feminine
The state of being feminine; femininity.
- His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.
A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on…
A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
- Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand...
- Ooh! “Even the ladies!” #feminism #confedera-she !
The neighborhood
- antonymantifeminism
- neighborfemicentric
- neighborfeminazi
- neighborfeminine
- neighborfemininity
- neighborfemininize
- neighborfeminist
- neighborfeministic
- neighborfeministical
- neighborfeministically
- neighborfeminocentric
- neighborfeminocentrism
- neighboregalitarianism
Derived
anti-feminism, antifeminism, biofeminism, counterfeminism, femifascism, feminationalism, femonationalism, femvertising, meninism, nonfeminism, parafeminism, postfeminism, post-feminism, prefeminism, pre-feminism, profeminism, pro-feminism, pseudo-feminism, pseudofeminism, STEMinism, unfeminism, xenofeminism, xenofeminist
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for feminism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA