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overfacile en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + facile.

Meanings

1. Excessively facile.
   • Vernant, Detienne, and Vidal-Naquet all comment upon the exclusion of women as a founding principle of Athens. Loraux's contribution is to explore the psychological bases for the exclusions. She contends that misogyny is an "over-facile notion." The suffering of women in the birth of children was simply outside male experience. 2015, Roland A. Champagne, The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth): The Structuralists on Myth:

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