Noun: feminism
| Singular | feminism |
| Plural | feminisms |
Sample Sentences
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Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand... [1926 November 27, “The Talk of the Town”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, page 17:]
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There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural feminisms, for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority feminisms, themselves far from homogenous. [1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x:]
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Ooh! “Even the ladies!” #feminism #confedera-she ! [2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:]
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His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism. [1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume II, page 105:]
Nouns inflected like feminism
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). In the original sense of “women's movement or advocacy”, the French word was probably directly derived from fēmina, as if from Neo-Latin feminismus.
2. First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning “the state of being feminine”. Sense of “advocacy of women's rights” is from 1895. See: French Nouns '
féminisme', Latin Nouns '
fēminīnus'.
Verbs referencing "feminism"
Hungarian Nouns
feminizmus.