Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

over-genderization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over--gen-der-iza-tion
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The excessive emphasis on or exaggeration of gender roles.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"But even as we ask this question, I think we must also be careful to avoid premature over-generalization, or rather over-genderization."
"But these are more circumscribed than is often thought, and not to recognize their limits is to accept an undue burden of primitiveness and over-genderization in theology."
"Others criticize the conceptual career of the term as a hegemonic conceptual and political category or as an exaggerated substitution for the woman (Maynard 1995: 24 in Kahlert 2005: 53, 60; Wetterer 2002: 129), and write about the process of over-genderization (Kasic 2004)."

Etymology

From over- + genderization.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does over-genderization mean?: The excessive emphasis on or exaggeration of gender roles.
Where does over-genderization come from?: From over- + genderization.

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