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himpathetic

himpathetic adjective: exhibiting or pertaining to himpathy; inappropriately sympathetic to men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.

Adjective

himpathetic

  1. Exhibiting or pertaining to himpathy; inappropriately sympathetic to men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.
    • Yet it would be a mistake to view them as on a different plane of moral obtuseness, as opposed to merely being on the extreme end of a himpathetic spectrum on which many of us lie. Brock Turner's defenders exhibited forgiving tendencies, ...2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 200
    • But in a himpathetic world view this does make sense because the question we are invited to ask is what does it mean for him? That Kavanaugh's (and, to an extent, Thomas's) privilege is such that his greatest fear is the loss of his name […]2019, Karen Boyle, #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113

Origin of himpathetic

Blend of him + sympathetic, or of himpathy + sympathetic.

Questions about himpathetic

What does himpathetic mean?
Himpathetic means exhibiting or pertaining to himpathy; inappropriately sympathetic to men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.
What part of speech is himpathetic?
Himpathetic is an adjective.

Words near himpathetic in the dictionary

  1. Himmighausen
  2. Himmler
  3. Himmy
  4. himness
  5. himothy
  6. himpathetic
  7. himpathize
  8. himpathy
  9. hims
  10. himself
  11. himself/herself

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