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neuterism

neuterism noun: a belief in or support for gender neutrality.

Noun

neuterism (uncountable)

  1. A belief in or support for gender neutrality.
    • I mentioned that whenever I speak in front of a crowd of women about male emotional neuterism, the audience accepts the statement universally. I stressed that sexual dysfunctioning problems are one of the major causes of human unhappiness and breakdown in the stability of relationships.1982, Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, page 169
    • I was familiar, of course, with the protocols of neuterism, the silly, self-contradictory tenets of unisex, invented by those apparently as innocent of logic as glands, and the pathetic absurdities of "personism," such things, the fictions, the lies, the pretenses, the many tiny, brittle crusts...2001, John Norman, Witness of Gor

Origin of neuterism

From neuter + -ism.

Questions about neuterism

What does neuterism mean?
Neuterism means a belief in or support for gender neutrality.
What part of speech is neuterism?
Neuterism is a noun.

Words near neuterism in the dictionary

  1. neutercanes
  2. neuterdom
  3. neutered
  4. neutering
  5. neuterings
  6. neuterism
  7. neuterlike
  8. neuterly
  9. neuterness
  10. neuters
  11. neuticles

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