different between fembot vs android

English

Etymology

Blend of female +? bot. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and Oliver Crawford in the television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?mb?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

fembot (plural fembots)

1. (science fiction) A robot in female form.
   • 2003, Jyanni Steffensen, "Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity", Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, The MIT Press, p. 218, ?ISBN [1]

     The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fembot.
   1. (specifically) A female sexbot.
2. (derogatory) A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.
   • 1996, Melissa Raphael, Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality, Sheffield Academic Press, p. 61, ?ISBN [2]

     [...] patriarchal socialization works to sap, stunt and tame this energy, leaving successfully adapted women as little more than 'fembots' or 'feminized artifacts' who have become the products and commodities of patriarchal 'necrophilic' sexual fantasy.

   • 2003, Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader, Routledge, p. 3, ?ISBN [3]

     Too many people, forgetting the discipline of love and rage, have read the "Manifesto" as the ramblings of a blissed-out, technobunny, fembot.

Synonyms

• (robot): gynoid, robotess
• (unthinking woman): Stepford

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• androides (dated)

Etymology

From New Latin androides, from Ancient Greek ?????? (andrós) (genitive of ???? (an?r), “man”) + -????? (-eid?s), itself from ????? (eîdos, “form, image, shape, appearance, look”). Note the form ???????? (andr?d?s, “manly”) already existed in Ancient Greek. Synchronically, andro- +? -oid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æn?d???d/

Noun

android (plural androids)

1. A robot that is designed to look and act like a human being (not necessarily male)

Hypernyms

• robot

Hyponyms

• gynoid, fembot

Derived terms

• droid

Translations

See also

• cyborg

Adjective

android (comparative more android, superlative most android)

1. Possessing human qualities.
2. (anatomy, in pelvimetry) Of the pelvis, having a narrow anterior segment and a heart-shaped brim, typically found in the male.

Translations

Anagrams

• Dinardo, Dorinda

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (andrós, “man”) + -????? (-eid?s, “form, appearance”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

android m

1. android

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (an?r, “man”), ?????? (andrós), + -????? (-eid?s, “form, appearance”). Analogous to andro- +? -id.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an?dr?.it/

Noun

android m anim

1. android

Declension

Further reading

• android in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• android in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French androïde

Noun

android m (plural androizi)

1. android

Declension