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misogyny

noun
/mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/UK/mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/US

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.

  1. derived from μισογυνία

Definitions

  1. Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.

    • 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.
    • His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]
    • […] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]

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