Gynocentrism vs Masculine - What's the difference?
gynocentrism | masculine |
An ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1897
, title = Book Reviews and Notes
, magazine = The Open Court
, volume = 11
, page = 575
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=erIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA575
, passage = We Americans have not so much need to take his admonitions to heart as Continental Europeans, seeing that captious critics are prone to regard us as suffering rather from gynocentrism than anthropocentrism.
}}
Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
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Belonging to males; typically used by males.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
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(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
# (of a noun) Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
# (of some other parts of speech) Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.
(grammar) The masculine gender.
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(grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
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That which is masculine.
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A man.
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As nouns the difference between gynocentrism and masculine
is that gynocentrism is an ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females while masculine is (grammar) the masculine gender.As an adjective masculine is
of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.gynocentrism
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*gynocentricmasculine
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(wikipedia masculine)Alternative forms
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(en adjective)- Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons.
- “John”, “Paul” and “Jake” are masculine names.
- That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
- a masculine church.
- The noun ''Student'' is masculine in German.
- German uses the masculine of the definite article, ''der'', with ''Student''.