Feminism Definition

fĕmə-nĭzəm
noun
Feminine qualities.
Webster's New World
The principle that women should have political, economic, and social rights equal to those of men.
Webster's New World
The movement to win such rights for women.
Webster's New World
(dated) The state of being feminine. [from 1851; less common after 1895]
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Noun

Singular:
feminism
Plural:
feminisms

Origin of Feminism

  • From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning "the state of being feminine." Sense of "advocacy of women's rights" is from 1895.

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Feminism Sentence Examples

  • By the late 1960s, feminism and the equal rights movement were in full swing.

  • Needless to say, the authors take a pretty dim view of feminism.

  • I also want to briefly challenge organizations on the revolutionary left such as the SWP who are critical of feminism and women's autonomy.

  • Nudist writing intersected with a raft of other modern discourses-heliotherapy (sun-cure), sexology, socialism, feminism, and eugenics.

  • Girlishness was "in" during the 1980s, which many saw as a backlash against the feminism of the 1970s.

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Words Starting With

FFEFEM

Words Ending With

MSMISM

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Words Starting With F and Ending With M

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