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Femicide vs Gendercide - What's the difference?

femicide | gendercide | Hyponyms |

Gendercide is a hyponym of femicide.



As nouns the difference between femicide and gendercide

is that femicide is the killing of a woman, now especially when motivated by misogyny while gendercide is the killing of people because of their gender.

femicide

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The killing of a woman, now especially when motivated by misogyny.

    • References

    * 2006 Random House Dictionary

    gendercide

    English

    (wikipedia gendercide)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The killing of people because of their gender.

    • Derived terms

    * gendercidal

    Hyponyms

    * femicide * gynocide