Misogyny

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /mɪˈsÉ’dÊ’.ɪ.ni/
• US IPA: /mɪˈsɑːdÊ’.ɪ.ni/

Origin

From Ancient Greek μισογυνία and μισογύνης (misogunēs, "woman hater"), from μισέω (miseō, "I hate") + γυνή (gunē, "woman").

Full definition of misogyny

Noun

1. Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
• 1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (ISBN 0762304839), page 29: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, Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century (ISBN 0300076045), page 84:His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; ...
• 2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender (ISBN 0786420626), page 122:This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny. By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.
• 2006, Jack Holland, Misogyny: the world's oldest prejudice (ISBN 0786718234)

Synonyms

• misogynism

Antonyms

• misandry
• philogyny

Derived terms

• misogynic
• misogynist
• misogynistic
• misogynistically
• internalized misogyny