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As nouns the difference between female and feminocentrism

is that female is one of the female (feminine) sex or gender while feminocentrism is focus on women; a female-centered worldview (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such a focus is misandric).

As an adjective female

is belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has xx chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).

female

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Adjective

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  • Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XX chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).
  • * 1987 , Don't Shoot[,] Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia , page 350:
    • A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'
  • Belonging to the feminine (social) gender.
  • (grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
  • * 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:
    • The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female , but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
  • (figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

    • Synonyms

    * feminine * (figuratively) socket

    Coordinate terms

    * intersex * transgender * male * neuter

    Derived terms

    * female-assigned, cisfemale, transfemale

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
  • # A human member of the feminine sex or gender.
  • # An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
  • # (botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

    • Synonyms

    * girl; see also * woman; see also

    See also

    * female genital mutilation * (Symbol for female) * (wikipedia) * sex, gender, gender identity

    References

    * 1000 English basic words

    feminocentrism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • focus on women; a female-centered worldview (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such a focus is misandric)
  • * 1994 , Constance D. Harsh, Subversive heroines: feminist resolutions of social crisis in the condition-of-England novel
    • Feminocentrism and the Road to Female Empowerment At the onset of the riot scene in North and South, Margaret Hale is safely stationed with the Thornton family on the second floor of their home.
  • * 2002 , Cecilia Reynolds, Women and school leadership: international perspectives , page 152:
    • This method of inquiry is more holistic, as it goes beyond criticisms of androcentrism or feminocentrism (the practice of viewing the world and shaping reality from a male lens then, conversely, from a female lens)
  • * 2003 , Suzanne Rodin Pucci, James Thompson, Jane Austen and Co: remaking the past in contemporary culture , page 249:
    • As Laura Mulvey and many other film theorists have argued, this is a structural position that women rarely occupy in commercial cinema. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the feminocentrism of the novels is cited by several of those involved in the recent productions

    Synonyms

    * gynocentrism

    Related terms

    * feminocentric * femicentric * feminacentric