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mansplanations

mansplanations is the plural of mansplanation.

Meaning of mansplanation

Noun

mansplanation (plural mansplanations)

  1. (informal) A condescending explanation given by a male explainer to a female listener, especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it because she is a woman.
    • Like I said, I can see how a person can take the song as a mansplanation of an issue primarily pertaining to women, but was that Lupe’s intention?2012, Ameer Hasan Loggins, "Bitch Bad: Misogyny, Misappropriated Anger & 'Me-ism'", Onyx Express (University of California, Berkeley), Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2012, page 9

Questions about mansplanations

What is mansplanations the plural of?
Mansplanations is the plural of mansplanation.

Words near mansplanations in the dictionary

  1. mansplainers
  2. mansplaining
  3. mansplains
  4. mansplainy
  5. mansplanation
  6. mansplanations
  7. mansplay
  8. mansplayed
  9. mansplaying
  10. manspread
  11. manspreaded

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