feminism
Syllables: fem·in·ismUK/ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/
feminism noun: a social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
Noun
feminism (countable and uncountable, plural feminisms)
- A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
- Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand...1926 November 27, “The Talk of the Town”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, page 17
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural feminisms, for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are...1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x
- The state of being feminine; femininity.
- His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume II, page 105
feminism meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
feminism in Hindi
- the social theory or political movement
- नारीवाद nārīvād, स्त्रीवाद strīvād, महिलावाद mahilāvād
feminism in Tamil
- the social theory or political movement
- பெண்ணியம் peṇṇiyam
feminism in Marathi
- feminism
- स्त्रीवाद strīvād
feminism in Urdu
- the social theory or political movement
- نِسوانِیَّت nisvāniyyat, تَحرِیک نِسوانِیَّت taihrīk-e-nisvāniyyat, نِسوانِیَّت کی تَحرِیک nisvāniyyat kī taihrīk, نسانیت nisāniyat
More languagesFewer languages
- feminism in Bengali
- নারীবাদ naribad
- feminism in Telugu
- స్త్రీవాదం strīvādaṁ
- feminism in Malayalam
- ഫെമിനിസം, സ്ത്രീവാദം, സ്ത്രീസമത്വവാദം, സ്ത്രീപക്ഷവാദം
- feminism in Kannada
- ಸ್ತ್ರೀ ವಾದ, ಸ್ತ್ರೀ ಸಮಾನತಾ ವಾದ, ಸ್ತ್ರೀ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ವಾದ
- feminism in Punjabi
- ਨਾਰੀਵਾਦ, ਔਰਤਵਾਦ
- feminism in Gujarati
- નારીવાદ nārīvād
- feminism in Odia
- ନାରୀବାଦ
- feminism in Nepali
- नारीवाद, स्त्रीवाद
- feminism in Arabic
- حَرَكَة حُقُوق الْمَرْأَة ḥarakat ḥuqūq al-marʔa, أُنْثَوِيَّة ʔunṯawiyya, نِسْوِيَّة niswiyya, فِيمِينِيزْم fiminizm
- feminism in Malay
- faham kewanitaan, faham feminis, feminisme
- feminism in Indonesian
- feminisme
- feminism in Persian
- فمینیسم
- feminism in Thai
- สตรีนิยม sà-dtrii-ní-yom
- feminism in Vietnamese
- chủ nghĩa nữ quyền
- feminism in Myanmar
- အမျိုးသမီးဝါဒ a.myui:sa.mi:wada.
Examples of feminism in a sentence
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992).1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x:
- “Even the ladies!” #feminism #confedera-she !2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros....
Antonyms of feminism
Forms of feminism
| plural | feminisms |
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Origin of feminism
From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). In the original sense of “women's movement or advocacy”, the French word was probably directly derived from fēmina, as if from Neo-Latin feminismus. First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning “the state of being feminine”. Sense of “advocacy of women's rights” is from 1895.
Words formed from feminism
- anti-feminism
- antifeminism
- biofeminism
- counterfeminism
- femifascism
- feminationalism
- femonationalism
- femvertising
- meninism
- nonfeminism
- parafeminism
- postfeminism
- post-feminism
- pre-feminism
- prefeminism
- profeminism
- pro-feminism
- pseudo-feminism
- pseudofeminism
- STEMinism
- ultrafeminism
- unfeminism
- xenofeminism
- xenofeminist
Phrases with feminism
- pop feminism
- magic feminism
- power feminism
- choice feminism
- victim feminism
- liberal feminism
- magical feminism
- radical feminism
- anarchist feminism
- first-wave feminism
- third-wave feminism
- fourth-wave feminism
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Questions about feminism
- What does feminism mean?
- Feminism means a social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
- What is feminism in Hindi?
- Feminism in Hindi is नारीवाद (nārīvād), स्त्रीवाद (strīvād), महिलावाद (mahilāvād). See Feminism meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use feminism in a sentence?
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992).
- What part of speech is feminism?
- Feminism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce feminism?
- Feminism is pronounced /ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/ (UK).
- What is the plural of feminism?
- The plural of feminism is feminisms.
Words near feminism in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: feminism (page history and authors); स्त्रीवाद (Marathi) (page history and authors); feminism (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); feminism (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feminism (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); નારીવાદ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); feminism (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feminism (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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