different between feminazi vs feminism

English

Alternative forms

• femi-Nazi, femme-Nazi

Etymology

Blend of feminist +? Nazi, popularized in 1992 by politically conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?m??n??tsi/, enPR: f?m'?-nät?s?

Adjective

feminazi (comparative more feminazi, superlative most feminazi)

1. (derogatory, potentially offensive) Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks superiority of women over men.

Translations

Noun

feminazi (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, potentially offensive) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:feminazi.

   Synonyms: fembitch, (often used by anti-feminists) femcunt, (rare) femifascist

Usage notes

• See the usage notes about Nazi.
• Limbaugh defined the term as “a feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur”, adding that “[t]here are fewer than twenty-five known Feminazis in the United States”. However, in practice he and others use the term in a much wider context.

Derived terms

• feminazism

Translations

References

Anagrams

• infamize

Galician

Etymology

Calque of English feminazi: blend of feminista +? nazi.

Adjective

feminazi m or f (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

Noun

feminazi m or f (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

Derived terms

• feminazismo m

Portuguese

Etymology

Calque of English feminazi: blend of feminista +? nazi.

Noun

feminazi m, f (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

Derived terms

• feminazismo m

Spanish

Alternative forms

• feminazista (rare)

Etymology

Calque of English feminazi: blend of feminista +? nazi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /femi?na?i/, [fe.mi?na.?i]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /femi?nasi/, [fe.mi?na.si]
• Hyphenation: fe?mi?na?zi

Adjective

feminazi (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

Noun

feminazi m or f (plural feminazis)

1. (derogatory, offensive) feminazi

   Synonym: (see usage notes there) hembrista

Derived terms

• feminazismo m

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

Hyponyms

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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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