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Miscegeny vs Misogyny - What's the difference?

miscegeny | misogyny |

As nouns the difference between miscegeny and misogyny

is that miscegeny is (rare) miscegenation while misogyny is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.

miscegeny

English

Noun

(-)
  • (rare) Miscegenation.
  • *1907 , Josiah Morse, "The Psychology of Prejudice," International Journal of Ethics , vol. 17, no. 4, p. 499:
  • *:If I should hold that miscegeny is bestial and a heinous crime I would be prejudiced for I would be deliberately overlooking all the resemblances between the colored and white races.
  • *2008 , Ivor L. Miller, "Religious Symbolism in Cuban Political Performance," TDR , vol. 44, no. 2, p. 50:
  • *:In her sanctuary in El Cobre near Santiago, the skin tone of la Virgen is mulatto (a child of miscegeny ).
  • misogyny

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
  • * 1999 , Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (ISBN 0762304839), page 29:
  • Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.
  • * 1999 , Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century (ISBN 0300076045), page 84:
  • His misogyny , like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice;
  • * 2005 , Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender (ISBN 0786420626), page 122:
  • This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny . By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.
  • * 2006', Jack Holland, '''''Misogyny : the world's oldest prejudice (ISBN 0786718234)
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  • Synonyms

    * misogynism

    Antonyms

    * misandry * philogyny

    Derived terms

    * misogynic * misogynist * misogynistic * misogynistically * internalized misogyny