mansplaining

noun
/ˈmanˌspleɪnɪŋ/UK/ˈmænˌspleɪnɪŋ/US

Etymology

Blend of man + explaining, or from mansplain + -ing.

Definitions

  1. The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a woman, in…

    The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a woman, in order to appear knowledgeable, or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.

    • “Cognitive therapy” is the fancy clinical term for what is otherwise known as “mansplaining.”
  2. present participle and gerund of mansplain

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mansplaining. 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