misogyny
UK/mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni//mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
misogyny noun: hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
Noun
misogyny (usually uncountable, plural misogynies)
- Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
- Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 29
- His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]1999, Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century, →ISBN, page 84
- Synonyms:
- misogynism
misogyny meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
misogyny in Hindi
- hatred or contempt for women
- स्त्रीद्वेष strīdveṣ, नारीद्वेष nārīdveṣ
misogyny in Marathi
- स्त्रीद्वेष
misogyny in Bengali
- নারীবিদ্বেষ, নারী-বিদ্বেষ, মিসোগিনি
misogyny in Telugu
- స్త్రీద్వేషం, స్త్రీద్వేషము
More languagesFewer languages
- misogyny in Kannada
- ಸ್ತ್ರೀದ್ವೇಷ, ಮಹಿಳಾವೈರ, ಹೆಣ್ಣಿನ ವೈರ
- misogyny in Punjabi
- ਮਿਸੋਗਨੀ, ਮਿਸੋਗੈਨਿ, ਮਿਸੋਗੈਨਸੀ
- misogyny in Gujarati
- સ્ત્રીદ્વેષ
- misogyny in Odia
- ମିସୋଗିନି
- misogyny in Nepali
- स्त्रीद्वेष, मिसोगिनि, मिसोगिनी
- misogyny in Arabic
- كُرْه النِّسَاء kurh an-nisāʔ
- misogyny in Malay
- misogini
- misogyny in Persian
- زنستیزی zan-setizi
Examples of misogyny in a sentence
- This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny.2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender, →ISBN, page 122:
- When I played him, I could find reasons for the misogyny but half-ignored the murders.2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches...
Synonyms of misogyny
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Forms of misogyny
| plural | misogynies |
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Origin of misogyny
From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.
Words formed from misogyny
Questions about misogyny
- What does misogyny mean?
- Misogyny means hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
- What is misogyny in Hindi?
- Misogyny in Hindi is स्त्रीद्वेष (strīdveṣ), नारीद्वेष (nārīdveṣ). See Misogyny meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use misogyny in a sentence?
- This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny.
- What part of speech is misogyny?
- Misogyny is a noun.
- How do you pronounce misogyny?
- Misogyny is pronounced /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/ (UK).
- What is the plural of misogyny?
- The plural of misogyny is misogynies.
Words near misogyny in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: misogyny (page history and authors); misogyny (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); misogyny (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); misogyny (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); misogyny (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misogyny (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); misogyny (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); misogyny (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); misogyny (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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