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antifemale

antifemale adjective: averse to, or acting against, females.

Adjective

antifemale (comparative more antifemale, superlative most antifemale)

  1. Averse to, or acting against, females.
    • Susan Brownmiller states that heterosexual pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda, and a clear explication of the philosophy of rape.1976 February 14, "Story of O" Is A Rape Scene, “Michael Bronski”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 13
    • As Das Gupta reports, antifemale bias is stronger for later-born siblings.2009 September 6, “The Daughter Deficit”, in New York Times

Noun

antifemale (plural antifemales)

  1. A genetic sequence that produces a non-feminine quality.
    • 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.2018, Bentlee Salinas, Plant Cytogenetics, Breeding and Evolution, page 226

Synonyms of antifemale

Forms of antifemale

Adjective
comparativemore antifemale
superlativemost antifemale
alternative formanti-female
Noun
pluralantifemales

Origin of antifemale

From anti- + female.

Questions about antifemale

What does antifemale mean?
Antifemale means averse to, or acting against, females.
What part of speech is antifemale?
Antifemale can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antifemale in the dictionary

  1. antifeedback
  2. antifeeding
  3. antifelt
  4. antifelting
  5. antifem
  6. antifemale
  7. antifemales
  8. antifeminine
  9. antifemininity
  10. antifeminism
  11. antifeminisms

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