WORD FOR THE DAY: FEMINOPHOBIA

Your word for today is: feminophobia, n.

feminophobia, n.

[‘ An irrational fear or dislike of women.’]

Pronunciation: Brit. /ˌfɛmᵻnəˈfəʊbɪə/,  U.S. /ˌfɛmənəˈfoʊbiə/

Etymology: < classical Latin fēmina woman (see female n. and adj.) + -o- connective + -phobia comb. form.

  An irrational fear or dislike of women.

1960  A. Koestler Lotus & Robot ii. viii. 213 One would have to coin the term feminophobia—the behaviour of shy young men in the presence of members of the opposite sex.

1994 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 24 July 33 Is she a Victim Icon, a brilliant woman cruelly robbed of the job she deserved by virtue of rampant feminophobia?

2004  R. Braidotti in  T. Krier  & E. D. Harvey Luce Irigaray & Premod. Culture xi. 165 She emphasizes the extent to which ‘feminophobia’ still functions in our world and of how some feminist theories are complicitous with it.

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