feminicide
feminicide is the alternative form of femicide.
Meaning of femicide
Noun
femicide (countable and uncountable, plural femicides)
- The killing of a woman or girl, originally (figurative) with reference to loss of virtue but now usually (law) specifically because of their sex or gender and especially such a killing by a man motivated by misogyny.
- One of the most pernicious nuisances of London is the insistence of voluptuaries, who, relying on the respectability of their rank, and the weight of their purse, endevour in open day to seduce young women who attract their attention in the public streets!... This species of delinquency may be...1801, John Corry, A Satirical View of London, pages 59-60
- A person who commits such an act.
Forms of feminicide
| plural | feminicides |
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Origin of feminicide
From Latin fēmina (“woman”) + -icide, correcting the grammaticality of earlier femicide.
Words formed from feminicide
Questions about feminicide
- What is feminicide the alternative form of?
- Feminicide is the alternative form of femicide.
Words near feminicide in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: feminicide (page history and authors); femicide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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