Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postfeminist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English

Syllables: post-fem-i-nist
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to postfeminism.

noun

One who belongs to the postfeminism movement.

Example Sentences

"This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation."
"But to call a group of researchers postfeminist without exploring what exactly that means belittles both feminists and postfeminists alike."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English feminist English postfeminist From post- + feminist.

Inflected Forms

more postfeminist (comparative) most postfeminist (superlative) postfeminists (plural)

Questions

What does postfeminist mean?: Pertaining to postfeminism.
Where does postfeminist come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English feminist English postfeminist From post- + feminist.

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