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antiheroinism en · NOUN

Etymology

From antiheroine + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The quality of being an antiheroine.
    • Interestingly, in their introduction to Antiheroines of Contemporary Media (2020), Melanie Haas, N. A. Pierce and Gretchen Busl argue that 'antiheroinism is a more realistic depiction of women, as women are far more complex and require a far more sophisticated representation than other standard tropes allow' (13). 2024, Eleanore Gardner, Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine, page 6:
    • I contend that each level of resistance bears a certain idiosyncrasy, as each layer of temporality not only conducts a different interrelation with antiheroinism but also reflects a different form of antiheroinism. 2022, Yael Levy, Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound, page 145:
    • These same readers act against her when she oversteps the boundaries of prescribed female domains. But the writings which cause her to become a martyr are in fact a sort of antiheroinism. 1993, Daly, Pierrette, Heroic tropes : gender and intertext, page 69: