humyn
humyn noun: feminist spelling of human.
Noun
humyn (plural humyns)
- Feminist spelling of human
- Unfortunately, as the quantity of humyns grew, their ethical quality diminished. The Lord performed a moral evaluation of the behavior of humynkind and was not pleased.1997, Robert Martin Walker, Politically Correct Old Testament Stories, page 25
- Beauvoir instead emphasises our fundamental intersubjectivity as humyns, that is, the undeniability of our relatedness to other humyns, and posits that this both shapes (and thus to some extent delimits) but also enables our existence.2014, Lucy Nicholas, Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come
Forms of humyn
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Origin of humyn
From human, respelled so as not to contain the word man. Compare womyn.
Words formed from humyn
Questions about humyn
- What does humyn mean?
- Humyn means feminist spelling of human.
- What part of speech is humyn?
- Humyn is a noun.
- What is the plural of humyn?
- The plural of humyn is humyns.
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