misogyny
/mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice."
- "His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]"
- "[…] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]"
- "This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny. By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires."
- "[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When I played him, I could find reasons for the misogyny but half-ignored the murders."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: μισογυνία
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
- British English: /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/