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antiheroinism

antiheroinism noun: the quality of being an antiheroine.

Noun

antiheroinism (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being an antiheroine.
    • These same readers act against her when she oversteps the boundaries of prescribed female domains. But the writings which cause her to become a martyr are in fact a sort of antiheroinism.1993, Daly, Pierrette, Heroic tropes : gender and intertext, page 69
    • I contend that each level of resistance bears a certain idiosyncrasy, as each layer of temporality not only conducts a different interrelation with antiheroinism but also reflects a different form of antiheroinism.2022, Yael Levy, Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound, page 145

Origin of antiheroinism

From antiheroine + -ism.

Questions about antiheroinism

What does antiheroinism mean?
Antiheroinism means the quality of being an antiheroine.
What part of speech is antiheroinism?
Antiheroinism is a noun.

Words near antiheroinism in the dictionary

  1. antiheroically
  2. antiheroics
  3. antiheroin
  4. antiheroine
  5. antiheroines
  6. antiheroinism
  7. antiheroism
  8. antiherpes
  9. antiherpesviral
  10. antiherpesvirus
  11. antiherpetic

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