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womanhating

womanhating adjective: hating women.

Adjective

womanhating (comparative more womanhating, superlative most womanhating)

  1. Hating women.
    • But these attitudes in male writers were taken for granted, accepted as sound philosophical bases, as quite normal, certainly not as womanhating, aggressive or neurotic.1962, Doris Lessing, quoted in Liberating Literature, page 83
    • And as Germaine Greer points out, the “lay,” if finally granted, or an endless series of them, tends to make the womanhating man even more hateful and contemptuous.1972, Konrad Kellen, The Coming Age of Woman Power, page 133

Noun

womanhating (uncountable)

  1. Hatred of women; misogyny.
    • Meanwhile, womanhating as a recourse of the powerless is sapping strength from black communities, and our very lives.1984, Audre Lorde, “I Am Your Sister”, in Let Nobody Turn Us Around, page 520
    • Remember when you think about sex that men often use it to express power, control, womanhating and violence.1993, Pearle Cleage, Deals with the Devil, page 18

Forms of womanhating

comparativemore womanhating
superlativemost womanhating

Origin of womanhating

From woman + hating.

Questions about womanhating

What does womanhating mean?
Womanhating means hating women.
What part of speech is womanhating?
Womanhating can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near womanhating in the dictionary

  1. womanhandled
  2. womanhandles
  3. womanhandling
  4. womanhater
  5. womanhaters
  6. womanhating
  7. womanhead
  8. womanhood
  9. womanhoods
  10. womanhouse
  11. womanhouses

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