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pseudofeminist

pseudofeminist adjective: seemingly feminist; feminist perhaps in form, but certainly not in essence.

Adjective

pseudofeminist (comparative more pseudofeminist, superlative most pseudofeminist)

  1. Seemingly feminist; feminist perhaps in form, but certainly not in essence.
    • The ads deployed pseudofeminist rhetoric with implicit references to Title IX and sexual assault, casting trans students as patriarchal threats to women’s hard-won rights: “The end of girls’ sports? Her dreams of a scholarship shattered, your 14-year-old daughter just lost her position on an...2019, Mia Fischer, chapter 5, in Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →LCCN, page 176

Noun

pseudofeminist (plural pseudofeminists)

  1. One who is apparently, but not actually, a feminist.
    • These pseudofeminists consistently preach feminism with one hand while practicing traditional sexism with the other.2007, J. Serano, Whipping girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity.
    Synonyms:
    fauxminist

Synonyms of pseudofeminist

Forms of pseudofeminist

Adjective
comparativemore pseudofeminist
superlativemost pseudofeminist
alternative formpseudo-feminist
Noun
pluralpseudofeminists

Origin of pseudofeminist

From pseudo- + feminist.

Questions about pseudofeminist

What does pseudofeminist mean?
Pseudofeminist means seemingly feminist; feminist perhaps in form, but certainly not in essence.
What part of speech is pseudofeminist?
Pseudofeminist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pseudofeminist in the dictionary

  1. pseudofeeblemindedness
  2. pseudofeet
  3. pseudofeminine
  4. pseudofeminism
  5. pseudofeminisms
  6. pseudofeminist
  7. pseudofeminists
  8. pseudofermion
  9. pseudofermionic
  10. pseudofermions
  11. pseudofever

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