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antimale en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + male.

Meanings

1. Averse to, or acting against, males.
   • When I saw Jean O'Leary for the first time, she was speaking in vehemently radical and anti-male terms at a GAA meeting. 1979 April 7, Nancy Walker, “NGTF, the Movement, and All of Us”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

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misandric

antimale en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + male.

Meanings

1. Something that is anti-male.
   • We [are] entering this new era in molecular biology of sex determination where it's a more subtle dosage of genes, some pro-males, some pro-females, some anti-males, some anti-females that all interplay with each other rather than a simply linear pathway of genes going one after the other. 2009, Vilain E, Rediscovering Biology, Unit 11 - Biology of Sex and Gender, Expert interview transcripts, Annenberg Media:

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