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femino-

femino- prefix: pertaining to feminism or to women generally.

Prefix

femino-

  1. Pertaining to feminism or to women generally.
    • Appropriating elements from Max Stirner, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Havelock Ellis, Henri Bergson, and Edward Carpenter, she set forth an unprecedented egoistic strain of femino-anarchism.1996, Bruce Clarke, Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 8
    • Further, other women relieved of family caring roles by the availability of the public services, enter other parts of the labour force. This leads to a kind of femino-multiplier of job creation.2012 September 27, Giuliano Bonoli, David Natali, The Politics of the New Welfare State, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 56

Origin of femino-

Latin femina (“woman”) with -o-.

Questions about femino-

What does femino- mean?
Femino- means pertaining to feminism or to women generally.
What part of speech is femino-?
Femino- is a prefix.

Words near femino- in the dictionary

  1. feminized
  2. feminizer
  3. feminizers
  4. feminizes
  5. feminizing
  6. femino-
  7. feminocentric
  8. feminocentrism
  9. feminocracies
  10. feminocracy
  11. feminoid

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