What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Taxonomy vs Misogyny - What's the difference?

taxonomy | misogyny |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and misogyny

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while misogyny is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    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)
  • * '>citation
  • Synonyms

    * misogynism

    Antonyms

    * misandry * philogyny

    Derived terms

    * misogynic * misogynist * misogynistic * misogynistically * internalized misogyny