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Misogyny vs Miscegenation - What's the difference?

misogyny | miscegenation |

As nouns the difference between misogyny and miscegenation

is that misogyny is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women while miscegenation is the mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.

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

    miscegenation

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chiefly, US) The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
  • (figuratively) A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.
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  • Usage notes

    Often considered offensive, pejorative, or old-fashioned, alternative terms are more common in contemporary use, such as interracial, interethnic or , multiracial, or mixed for persons. In scholarly use, miscegenation is particularly used for historical discussions, and in current use has been repurposed by academics to analyze the emotions, reactions, and anxieties held by people about interracial couplings.

    Synonyms

    * miscegeny

    Derived terms

    * miscegenative / miscegenetic / miscegenic / miscegenistic / miscegenous (adj.) * miscegenationist / miscegenist (adj. and n.) * antimiscegenation (US)

    See also

    * (l) * * (l) * (l)

    References