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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

First recorded in English 1852. Ultimately from Latin f?min?nus, from f?mina (“woman”). See also feminine, feminism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?m?n?st/
• Hyphenation: fem?in?ist

Adjective

feminist (comparative more feminist, superlative most feminist)

1. relating to or in accordance with feminism.

   Hypernym: egalitarian

Translations

Noun

feminist (plural feminists)

1. an advocate of feminism; a person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in all aspects of public and private life

   Hypernym: egalitarian

2. a member of a feminist political movement

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• feminist at OneLook Dictionary Search
• feminist in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• feminist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Danish

Etymology

From French féministe.

Noun

feminist c (singular definite feministen, plural indefinite feminister)

1. feminist

   Synonyms: kvindeforkæmper, kvindesagsforkæmper

Declension

Derived terms

• feministisk

References

• “feminist” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Internationalism, probably borrowed from French or English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe?.mi?n?st/
• Hyphenation: fe?mi?nist
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

feminist m (plural feministen, diminutive feministje n, feminine feministe)

1. feminist

Derived terms

• feministisch

Related terms

• feminisme

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

feminist m (definite singular feministen, indefinite plural feminister, definite plural feministene)

1. a feminist

Related terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

feminist m (definite singular feministen, indefinite plural feministar, definite plural feministane)

1. a feminist

Derived terms

• feministisk

Related terms

• feminisme

Romanian

Etymology

From French féministe

Noun

feminist m (plural femini?ti)

1. feminist

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

feminist m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. feminist

Swedish

Noun

feminist c

1. feminist

Declension