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masculinisms

masculinisms is the plural of masculinism.

Meaning of masculinism

Noun

masculinism (usually uncountable, plural masculinisms)

  1. (usually) 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
  2. (usually) 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

  1. masculinise
  2. masculinised
  3. masculinises
  4. masculinising
  5. masculinism
  6. masculinisms
  7. masculinist
  8. masculinistic
  9. masculinistically
  10. masculinists
  11. masculinities

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