Misogyny Definition

mĭ-sŏjə-nē
noun
Hatred of women or the female sex, esp. by a man.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Misogyny

  • From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunia) and μισογύνης (misogunÄ“s, “woman hater"), from μισέω (miseō, “I hate") + γυνή (gunÄ“, “woman").

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek mīsoguniā mīso- miso- gunē woman –gyny

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Misogyny Sentence Examples

  • Female androids elicit debates of misogyny, sexual exploitation and even the roots of essential feminism as they appear in science fiction and fantasy works.

  • To the more extreme end you find the blatant misogyny flaunted in Slick Rick's track ' Treat Her Like A Prostitute ' .

  • If we follow Iglesias's thesis, this runs from comfortable, bourgeois irrelevance to casual misogyny.

  • The first stage of realizing the importance of gender consisted of the cataloging of the explicit misogyny of most of the canon.

  • Of late, say within the past ten years, this outcry of misogyny has focused more on rap music lyrics than those of other music genres.

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