misogyny en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When I played him, I could find reasons for the misogyny but half-ignored the murders.
2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches, the great Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale explains his secrets [print version: The king and I]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, archived from the original on 16 May 2017, page R7:This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny. By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.
2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender, →ISBN, page 122: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.
1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 29:His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]
1999, Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century, →ISBN, page 84:[…] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| misogynies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Deriveds
misogynistic · transmisogynoir · transmisogyny · neo-misogyny · misogynic · misogynist · antimisogyny · anti-misogyny · misogynistically · misogynoir · misogynize
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Translations (76)
be жанчынаненаві́сніцтва (hatred or contempt for women) · he מִיזוֹגִינְיָה (hatred or contempt for women) · el μισογυνισμός (hatred or contempt for women) · fi misogynia (hatred or contempt for women) · cmn 仇女 (hatred or contempt for women) · sh mizogínija (hatred or contempt for women) · uk жінконенави́сництво (hatred or contempt for women) · lt mizoginija (hatred or contempt for women) · lv misogīnija (hatred or contempt for women) · hi नारीद्वेष (hatred or contempt for women) · de Frauenfeindlichkeit (hatred or contempt for women) · ja 女嫌い (hatred or contempt for women) · fa زنستیزی (hatred or contempt for women) · hi स्त्रीद्वेष (hatred or contempt for women) · haw hoʻokae wahine (hatred or contempt for women) · pt misoginia (hatred or contempt for women) · ca misogínia (hatred or contempt for women) · vo vomihet (hatred or contempt for women) · pl mizoginizm (hatred or contempt for women) · fr misogynie (hatred or contempt for women) · ko 여성혐오 (hatred or contempt for women) · sq mizogjini (hatred or contempt for women) · cs misogynie (hatred or contempt for women) · he מִיזוֹגֶנְיָה (hatred or contempt for women) · hy կնատյացություն (hatred or contempt for women) · nl misogynie (hatred or contempt for women) · et naistevihkamine (hatred or contempt for women) · ka მიზოგინია (hatred or contempt for women) · mk женомра́зие (hatred or contempt for women) · ru мизогини́я (hatred or contempt for women) · ru женоненави́стничество (hatred or contempt for women) · ja ミソジニー (hatred or contempt for women) · hu mizogínia (hatred or contempt for women) · is kvenhatur (hatred or contempt for women) · grc μισογυνία (hatred or contempt for women) · de Misogynie (hatred or contempt for women) · be жананяна́вісць (hatred or contempt for women) · hu nőgyűlölet (hatred or contempt for women) · et misogüünia (hatred or contempt for women) · ro misoginie (hatred or contempt for women) · ar كُرْه النِّسَاء (hatred or contempt for women) · cmn 厭女 /厌女 (hatred or contempt for women) · nl vrouwenhaat (hatred or contempt for women) · gd fuath bhan (hatred or contempt for women) · sk mizogýnia (hatred or contempt for women) · tr mizojini (hatred or contempt for women) · cs misogynství (hatred or contempt for women) · uk женоненави́сництво (hatred or contempt for women) · ka ქალთმოძულეობა (hatred or contempt for women) · gl misoxinia (hatred or contempt for women) · da kvindehad (hatred or contempt for women) · tr kadın düşmanlığı (hatred or contempt for women) · cs nenávist k ženám (hatred or contempt for women) · ms misogini (hatred or contempt for women) · mk мизоги́нија (hatred or contempt for women) · nb misogyni (hatred or contempt for women) · sh мизоги́нија (hatred or contempt for women) · ja 女性嫌悪 (hatred or contempt for women) · sv kvinnohat (hatred or contempt for women) · it misoginia (hatred or contempt for women) · sl mizoginija (hatred or contempt for women) · da misogyni (hatred or contempt for women) · fi naisviha (hatred or contempt for women) · eo mizogineco (hatred or contempt for women) · pl mizoginia (hatred or contempt for women) · uk мізогіні́я (hatred or contempt for women) · cmn 女性貶抑 /女性贬抑 (hatred or contempt for women) · de Frauenhass (hatred or contempt for women) · nb kvinnehat (hatred or contempt for women) · el μισογυνία (hatred or contempt for women) · bg мизоги́ния (hatred or contempt for women) · bg женомра́зие (hatred or contempt for women) · es misoginia (hatred or contempt for women) · sv misogyni (hatred or contempt for women) · be мізагіні́я (hatred or contempt for women) · de Weiberhass (hatred or contempt for women)