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English
Etymology 1
From male + -dom.
Pronunciation
Noun
maledom (uncountable)
- Men considered as a group; mankind.
- Coordinate term: femaledom
1995, Brian Sutton-Smith, Anthony D. Pellegrini, The future of play theory, page 287:There is a gender connotation here also, with the second power rhetoric clearly identified with maledom...
Etymology 2
From male + dom, short for domination or dominance.
Pronunciation
Noun
maledom (countable and uncountable, plural maledoms)
- (BDSM, uncountable) Male domination; a sexual practice in which men dominate women or other people.
- (BDSM, countable) A male dominator in sadomasochistic sexual practices.
1997, Anthony & Joy Hilbert, “Attention Joy gets (was: Woofie on Trust)”, in alt.personals.bondage (Usenet):And these things are better coming from a femsub like her because you so often dismiss criticism from maledoms as proof that they can't take competition.
Coordinate terms