different between gynecide vs gynocide

English

Etymology

Irregular formation from Ancient Greek ???? (gun?, “woman”) + -cide. Compare gynocide and gynecocide.

Noun

gynecide (uncountable)

1. The killing of females, especially female infants. [from 20th c.]
   • 1987, Christine Overall, Ethics and Human Reproduction, Allen & Unwin 1989, p. 31:

     The technology of sex preselection enables people, particularly men, to act on their biases against women; it is not an exaggeration to regard the potential results as a form of gynecide – that is, a wrongful form of sexual discrimination that reduces the relative number of females.

   • 1997, Amy Richlin, ‘Pliny's Brassiere’, in Roman Sexualities, Princeton 1997, p. 212:

     So though there is nothing here to indicate any widespread gynecide, there does seem to be an assumption that women will be trying to have male children.

   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 509:

     The pressure to reduce these practices will almost certainly increase, if only because governments have finally done the demographic arithmetic and realized that gynecide today means unruly bachelors tomorrow […].

English

Etymology

From gyno- +? -cide, after genocide. Compare gynecide and gynecocide.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????n?s??d/

Noun

gynocide (plural gynocides)

1. The killing of women and girls, especially considered as a social phenomenon.
   • 1976, Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood:

     We find that millions upon millions of women have died as the victims of organized gynocide.

   • 1987, Jane Caputi, The Age of Sex Crime, p. 95:

     In the contemporary Age of Sex Crime, it is another traditional female scapegoat, the prostitute, who is the paradigmatic target of gynocide.

Anagrams

• decoying, gynecoid

Dutch

Noun

gynocide f (plural gynocides, diminutive gynocidetje n)

1. femicide

   Synonyms: vrouwenmoord, femicide, feminicide

French

Etymology

gyno- +? -cide

Noun

gynocide f (plural gynocides)

1. femicide

Synonyms

• féminicide