masculinisms
masculinisms is the plural of masculinism.
Meaning of masculinism
Noun
masculinism (usually uncountable, plural masculinisms)
- An ideology of masculinity or of male rights; considered as opposed to feminism.
- While only women can participate in the building of a feminist culture, without the interference — however well-intentioned — of men, men can facilitate that process by refusing to participate in the old order of masculinism.1981 August 15, Cliff Flanders, “Anti-Masculinists”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 4
- Mannishness.
- The greater part of these various anatomical peculiarities and functional anomalies point, more or less clearly, to the prevalence among inverts of a tendency to infantilism, combined with feminism in men and masculinism in women1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)
Questions about masculinisms
- What is masculinisms the plural of?
- Masculinisms is the plural of masculinism.
Words near masculinisms in the dictionary
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