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Etymology
From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.
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Noun
misogyny (usually uncountable, plural misogynies)
- Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, →ISBN, 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, page 84:His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:[…] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]
2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender, →ISBN, 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:
2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches, the great Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale explains his secrets [print version: The king and I]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R7:[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When I played him, I could find reasons for the misogyny but half-ignored the murders.
Usage notes
- A related concept is gynophobia, the fear of women (or femininity), but not necessarily hatred of them.
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hatred or contempt for women
- Albanian: mizogjini f
- Arabic: كُرْه النِّسَاء m (kurh an-nisāʔ)
- Armenian: կնատյացություն (knatyacʻutʻyun)
- Belarusian: жанчынаненаві́сніцтва n (žančynanjenavísnictva), жананяна́вісць f (žananjanáviscʹ), мізагіні́я f (mizahiníja)
- Bulgarian: женомра́зие n (ženomrázie), мизоги́ния f (mizogínija)
- Catalan: misogínia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 女性貶抑/女性贬抑 (nǚxìng biǎnyì), 厭女/厌女 (zh) (yànnǚ), 仇女 (zh) (chóunǚ)
- Czech: misogynství n, nenávist k ženám f, misogynie (cs) f
- Danish: misogyni c, kvindehad n
- Dutch: misogynie (nl), vrouwenhaat (nl) m
- Esperanto: mizogineco
- Estonian: misogüünia, naistevihkamine
- Finnish: naisviha (fi), misogynia (fi)
- French: misogynie (fr) f
- Galician: misoxinia f
- Georgian: ქალთმოძულეობა (kaltmoʒuleoba), მიზოგინია (mizoginia)
- German: Frauenhass (de) m, Frauenfeindlichkeit (de) f, Misogynie (de) f, Weiberhass m
- Greek: μισογυνία (el) f (misogynía), μισογυνισμός (el) m (misogynismós)
- Ancient: μισογυνία f (misogunía)
- Hawaiian: hoʻokae wahine
- Hebrew: מִיזוֹגִינְיָה (he) f (misoginia)
- Hindi: स्त्रीद्वेष m (strīdveṣ), स्त्री द्वेष m (strī dveṣ)
- Hungarian: nőgyűlölet (hu), mizogínia (hu)
- Icelandic: kvenhatur n
- Italian: misoginia (it) f
- Japanese: 女嫌い (おんなぎらい, onnagirai), ミソジニー (ja) (misojinī), 女性嫌悪 (じょせいけんお, josei ken'o)
- Korean: 여성혐오(女性嫌惡) (yeoseonghyeomo)
- Latvian: misogīnija f
- Lithuanian: mizoginija f
- Macedonian: женомра́зие n (ženomrázie), мизоги́нија f (mizogínija)
- Malay: misogini
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: misogyni, kvinnehat n
- Persian: زنستیزی (zan-setizi)
- Polish: mizoginia (pl) f, mizoginizm m
- Portuguese: misoginia (pt) f
- Romanian: misoginie (ro) f
- Russian: женоненави́стничество (ru) n (ženonenavístničestvo), мизогини́я (ru) f (mizoginíja)
- Scottish Gaelic: fuath bhan f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мизоги́нија f
- Roman: mizogínija (sh) f
- Slovak: mizogýnia (sk) f
- Slovene: mizoginija f
- Spanish: misoginia (es) f
- Swedish: kvinnohat (sv) n, misogyni (sv) c
- Turkish: kadın düşmanlığı, mizojini
- Ukrainian: женоненави́сництво (ženonenavýsnyctvo), жінконенави́сництво n (žinkonenavýsnyctvo), мізогіні́я f (mizohiníja)
- Volapük: vomihet
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