# misogyny

Pronunciation: say "mi-SOJ-i-nee" US /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/, UK /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/

## Noun

1. Hatred or contempt for women, or prejudice against them.
   - Simple: Hating women, or thinking badly and unfairly of women just because they are women.
   - _Biographers trace the novelist's misogyny to his bitter childhood and a string of failed marriages._
   - _Female journalists describe a steady stream of online misogyny, from crude insults to outright threats._

## Origin

From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, "woman hater"), formed from μισέω (miséō, "I hate") and γυνή (gunḗ, "woman"). It can also be analyzed as miso- + -gyny.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/misogyny (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).