Dictionary

womanhating en · ADJ

Etymology

From woman + hating.

Meanings

1. Hating women.
   • And as Germaine Greer points out, the “lay,” if finally granted, or an endless series of them, tends to make the womanhating man even more hateful and contemptuous. 1972, Konrad Kellen, The Coming Age of Woman Power, page 133:
   • I was walking across the campus of Howard University with my boyfriend, a possessive pre-med student, who later revealed himself to be a womanhating thug, when I saw his older sister, also a Howard student, coming toward us, arm in arm with her boyfriend who was visiting for the big weekend. 1993, Pearle Cleage, Deals with the Devil, page 177:
   • But these attitudes in male writers were taken for granted, accepted as sound philosophical bases, as quite normal, certainly not as womanhating, aggressive or neurotic. 1962, Doris Lessing, quoted in Liberating Literature, page 83
   • My own favorite is the story of Fat Tissa, who noisily celebrates the nuns’ monk patron Ananda above the much more distinguished—but also womanhating—Mahakassapa, thus bringing down the latter’s wrath on poor Ananda. 2001, Nancy Auer Falk, Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives, page 203:

Forms

womanhating en · NOUN

Etymology

From woman + hating.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Hatred of women; misogyny.
   • Remember when you think about sex that men often use it to express power, control, womanhating and violence. 1993, Pearle Cleage, Deals with the Devil, page 18:
   • Meanwhile, womanhating as a recourse of the powerless is sapping strength from black communities, and our very lives. 1984, Audre Lorde, “I Am Your Sister”, in Let Nobody Turn Us Around, page 520:
   • Men bond through the womanhating they display in each other's presence through jokes or sexual harassment or stories of conquest. 1993, Sheila Jeffreys, The Lesbian Heresy, page 161: