Word.ws English Dictionary

femismo

femismo noun: exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.

Noun

femismo (uncountable)

  1. (informal, rare) Exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
    • All feminists' talk about a woman's superior ability to identify and express their feelings is just that, TALK. It's just more femismo designed to inflate the deflated self-esteems of mean spirited women.1996 October 13, westel [username], “Re: May/December Emotional Facelifts”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet)
    • i'm not doing any meds. perhaps it's my femismo that keeps me saying no to meds, perhaps it's that i don't want to mask other things.1998 July 7, Epona [username], “first time post”, in alt.support.anxiety-panic (Usenet)

Origin of femismo

Blend of female + machismo.

Questions about femismo

What does femismo mean?
Femismo means exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
What part of speech is femismo?
Femismo is a noun.

Words near femismo in the dictionary

  1. feminonuclei
  2. feminonucleus
  3. feminut
  4. feminuts
  5. FEMIS
  6. femismo
  7. FemLar
  8. Femlock
  9. femmage
  10. femmages
  11. femmagist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: femismo (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “femismo.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/femismo. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.