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heteropessimistic

/ˌhɛ.tə.ɹəˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/

heteropessimistic adjective: exhibiting or relating to heteropessimism.

Adjective

heteropessimistic (comparative more heteropessimistic, superlative most heteropessimistic)

  1. Exhibiting or relating to heteropessimism.
    • For [C.K.] Louie, masturbation’s explicitness (its permanence as a fact of male heterosexuality) as well as its mediation (its dependence on controlling women as objects of desire) advance the heteropessimistic thesis that all male fantasies must compulsively mistreat women.2022, Hunter Hargraves, Uncomfortable Television, page 5
    • To transcend the severe limitations (indeed, violent transphobia) of dissident feminism, as well as the heteropessimistic despair found in orthodox feminism, feminists must try – however cathartic and in one sense therapeutic it is – to resist the temptation to reinscribe the identity of ‘man’ at...2024, Finola Laughren, “The unpopular (manosphere) men of popular feminism”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 39, number 1, page 68

heteropessimistic meaning in Bengali

heteropessimistic in Bengali

তা প্রদর্শনকারী

Forms of heteropessimistic

comparativemore heteropessimistic
superlativemost heteropessimistic

Origin of heteropessimistic

From hetero- + pessimistic.

Questions about heteropessimistic

What does heteropessimistic mean?
Heteropessimistic means exhibiting or relating to heteropessimism.
What is heteropessimistic in Bengali?
Heteropessimistic in Bengali is তা প্রদর্শনকারী. See Heteropessimistic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is heteropessimistic?
Heteropessimistic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce heteropessimistic?
Heteropessimistic is pronounced /ˌhɛ.tə.ɹəˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/ (US).

Words near heteropessimistic in the dictionary

  1. heteropentamerize
  2. heteropentamers
  3. heteroperception
  4. heteropessimism
  5. heteropessimist
  6. heteropessimistic
  7. heteropessimists
  8. heteropetalous
  9. heterophagic
  10. heterophagolysosome
  11. heterophagolysosomes

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