antimother

antimother noun: a mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.

Noun

antimother (plural antimothers)

A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.
- The consent-to-pregnancy foundation runs the final risk of portraying women as antimothers, or monsters who kill their children.1996, Eileen L. McDonagh, Breaking the abortion deadlock: from choice to consent
- These representations of antimothers, monster mothers, "other" mothers can be understood as one facet of a cultural drive to monitor mothers, regulate them...2000, Heléna Ragoné, France Winddance Twine, Ideologies and technologies of motherhood: race, class, sexuality, nationalism

As an extremely pregnant Xena declared at Corinth, "This baby is nothing compared to my empire!" Evil Xena was thus an antimother.2003, Frances H. Early, Kathleen Kennedy, Athena's daughters: television's new women warriors:
As an antimother, she embodies everything foresworn by Victorian domestic ideology and clearly spells danger to the unwary.2004, Sidney I. Dobrin, Kenneth B. Kidd, Wild things: children's culture and ecocriticism:

plural	antimothers

From anti- + mother.

What does antimother mean?: Antimother means a mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.
How do you use antimother in a sentence?: As an extremely pregnant Xena declared at Corinth, "This baby is nothing compared to my empire!" Evil Xena was thus an antimother.
What part of speech is antimother?: Antimother is a noun.
What is the plural of antimother?: The plural of antimother is antimothers.

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