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hypermasculinism

hypermasculinism noun: excessive masculinity.

Noun

hypermasculinism (uncountable)

  1. Excessive masculinity.
    • Hyperracial fantasies likewise exist throughout the historical avant-garde, and gender politics take a particularly extreme form, leading to hypermasculinism.2009, Carrie Noland, Barrett Watten, Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement, Palgrave MacMillan

Origin of hypermasculinism

From hyper- + masculinism or hypermasculine + -ism.

Questions about hypermasculinism

What does hypermasculinism mean?
Hypermasculinism means excessive masculinity.
What part of speech is hypermasculinism?
Hypermasculinism is a noun.

Words near hypermasculinism in the dictionary

  1. hypermarts
  2. hypermasc
  3. hypermasculine
  4. hypermasculinisation
  5. hypermasculinised
  6. hypermasculinism
  7. hypermasculinist
  8. hypermasculinities
  9. hypermasculinity
  10. hypermasculinization
  11. hypermasculinized

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