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over-genderization

over-genderization noun: the excessive emphasis on or exaggeration of gender roles.

Noun

over-genderization (uncountable)

  1. The excessive emphasis on or exaggeration of gender roles.
    • But even as we ask this question, I think we must also be careful to avoid premature over-generalization, or rather over-genderization.1985, Philosophy of Education: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.).
    • But these are more circumscribed than is often thought, and not to recognize their limits is to accept an undue burden of primitiveness and over-genderization in theology.1991, Robert C. Neville, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology, →ISBN

Origin of over-genderization

From over- + genderization.

Questions about over-genderization

What does over-genderization mean?
Over-genderization means the excessive emphasis on or exaggeration of gender roles.
What part of speech is over-genderization?
Over-genderization is a noun.

Words near over-genderization in the dictionary

  1. over-fire
  2. over-fired
  3. over-fires
  4. over-firing
  5. over-fond
  6. over-genderization
  7. over-greedy
  8. over-hand
  9. over-handed
  10. over-handing
  11. over-hands

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