different between femicentric vs feminism

English

Alternative forms

• femi-centric

Adjective

femicentric (comparative more femicentric, superlative most femicentric)

1. woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric)
   • 1986, International Sociological Association. Biography and Society Research Committee, Oral History Society (Great Britain), Life Stores, Issue 2

     It is an order which is ‘femi-centric’ — which reflects the distinctiveness of female roles and responsibilities.

   • 1997, Thomas Robbins, Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem: contemporary apocalyptic movements, page 66

     REVELATIONS The Linguistic Turn With the repetition of situated, equally parochial identities — Afrocentric, homocentric, Islamic, femicentric, and so on

   • 2008 Jannie Hugo, Lucie Allan, Doctors for tomorrow: family medicine in South Africa, page 4

     The femicentric nature of the family in South Africa, hinging as it does on women, reflects both the strength and weakness of the institution.

Related terms

• feminocentric, feminacentric
• feminist

English

Etymology

From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin f?min?nus, from f?mina (“woman”). First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning "the state of being feminine." Sense of "advocacy of women's rights" is from 1895.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?m?n?z(?)m/
• Hyphenation: fem?in?ism

Noun

feminism (countable and uncountable, plural feminisms)

1. (obsolete) The state of being feminine; femininity. [from 1851; less common after 1895]
   • 1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume II, page 105:

     His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.

2. A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

Antonyms

• antifeminism

Coordinate terms

• masculism

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See also

• egalitarianism, equalism (ideology promoting treating the sexes (or other human divisions) equally)

Romanian

Etymology

From French féminisme

Noun

feminism n (uncountable)

1. feminism

Declension

Swedish

Noun

feminism c

1. feminism

Declension

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