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gynergy

gynergy noun: female creative energy.

Noun

gynergy (uncountable)

  1. Female creative energy.
    • The patterns of racism and gynergy exist, I contend, separate from and prior to the humans who currently affirm these ideas.2008, Constance Wise, Hidden Circles In The Web: Feminist Wicca, Occult Knowledge, and Process Thought, Lanham: AltaMira, →ISBN, →OL, page 126
    • The world could be so cockaludicrous, so full of snools and dickspeakers. Everybody was losing their gynergy.2010 December 26, Sara Corbett, “Gyno-theologian”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, page 14

Origin of gynergy

From gyno- + -ergy, coined by Emily Culpepper in a conversation in Leverett, Massachusetts, in 1983.

Questions about gynergy

What does gynergy mean?
Gynergy means female creative energy.
What part of speech is gynergy?
Gynergy is a noun.

Words near gynergy in the dictionary

  1. gynephilic
  2. gynephobe
  3. gynephobes
  4. gynephobia
  5. gynephobic
  6. gynergy
  7. gyneromantic
  8. gynes
  9. gynesexual
  10. gynesexuality
  11. gynesexuals

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