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masculinism

noun

Etymology

From masculine + -ism, as opposed to feminism.

  1. derived from masculīnus
  2. derived from masculin
  3. inherited from masculyne
  4. suffixed as masculinism — “masculine + ism”

Definitions

  1. An ideology of masculinity or of male rights

    An ideology of masculinity or of male rights; considered as opposed to feminism.

    • While only women can participate in the building of a feminist culture, without the interference — however well-intentioned — of men, men can facilitate that process by refusing to participate in the old order of masculinism.
    • […] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]

  2. Mannishness.

    • The greater part of these various anatomical peculiarities and functional anomalies point, more or less clearly, to the prevalence among inverts of a tendency to infantilism, combined with feminism in men and masculinism in women

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA