mankeeping
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The invisible social and emotional labor that women do for men in heterosexual relationships.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As a result, men turn to the women in their lives to fulfill their emotional needs. Ferrara and her coauthor are not the first to suggest that women bear the burden of mankeeping (although they did coin the term)."
- "Yes, but mankeeping is a real thing: men don’t mankeep; women mankeep."
- "The Guardian calls mankeeping a modern extension of emotional labor, one that turns a partner into a life coach."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man English man English keeping English mankeeping From man + keeping.