different between multiculturalism vs feminism

English

Etymology

From multicultural +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?lt??k?lt?????l?z(?)m/

Noun

multiculturalism (countable and uncountable, plural multiculturalisms)

1. The characteristics of a society, city etc. which has many different ethnic or national cultures mingling freely; political or social policies which support or encourage such coexistence. [from 20th c.]
   • 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage 2015, p. 18:

     The truth is that diversity, a kind of multiculturalism if we want to call it that, is the norm in any society.

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See also

• cosmopolitan
• culturism

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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