gynecide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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 […]."