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antiwomanist

antiwomanist adjective: opposing womanism.

Adjective

antiwomanist (comparative more antiwomanist, superlative most antiwomanist)

  1. Opposing womanism.
    • Interactions between women and men, or girls and boys, are warped with imbalance from the outset: “Male acculturation (a better description would be males’ seasoning) is antifemale, antiwomanist, antifeminist, and antireason […] Most men have been taught to treat, respond, listen, and react to...2018 February 27, “White Men’s Terrorism: Rape Culture, Mass Gun Violence, and Raising Our Boys to Hate Our Girls (and Everyone Else)”, in The Bridges We Burn

Noun

antiwomanist (plural antiwomanists)

  1. One who opposes womanism.
    • This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male...2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism

Forms of antiwomanist

Adjective
comparativemore antiwomanist
superlativemost antiwomanist
Noun
pluralantiwomanists

Origin of antiwomanist

From anti- + womanist.

Questions about antiwomanist

What does antiwomanist mean?
Antiwomanist means opposing womanism.
What part of speech is antiwomanist?
Antiwomanist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antiwomanist in the dictionary

  1. antiwokeness
  2. antiwolbachia
  3. antiwolbachial
  4. antiwolf
  5. antiwoman
  6. antiwomanist
  7. antiwomanists
  8. antiwomen
  9. antiwork
  10. antiworker
  11. antiworld

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