feminism

Meaning

Noun

• The state of being feminine; femininity.
• A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

Related

Opposite words

• antifeminism

Narrower meaning words

• Afro-Brazilian feminism
• Afrofeminism
• Afro-feminism
• analytic feminism
• analytical feminism
• anarcha-feminism
• anarchist feminism
• anarcho-feminism
• anti-abortion feminism
• capitalist feminism
• Chicana feminism
• cultural feminism
• cyberfeminism
• cyborg feminism
• difference feminism
• differential feminism
• dominance feminism
• ecofeminism
• ecological feminism
• equality feminism
• equity feminism
• embedded feminism
• entrepreneurial feminism
• environmental feminism
• Eurofeminism
• Euro-feminism
• evolutionary feminism
• fifth-wave feminism
• first-wave feminism
• fourth-wave feminism
• gender feminism
• Goddess feminism
• guerrilla feminism
• Guerrilla Feminism
• hip-hop feminism
• housewife feminism
• indigenous feminism
• international feminism
• labor feminism
• lipstick feminism
• magical feminism
• mainstream feminism
• material feminism
• maternal feminism
• nego-feminism
• neofeminism
• neo-feminism
• networked feminism
• new feminism
• New Feminism
• opportunity feminism
• Orthodox feminism
• Orthodox Jewish feminism
• outcome feminism
• paleofeminism
• paleo-feminism
• postfeminism
• post-feminism
• postmodern feminism
• postmodernist feminism
• power feminism
• protofeminism
• proto-feminism
• revolutionary feminism
• right-wing feminism
• second-wave feminism
• sex-negative feminism
• sex-positive feminism
• sex-radical feminism
• snail-sense feminism
• social feminism
• social justice feminism
• standpoint feminism
• state feminism
• stealth feminism
• straw feminism
• technofeminism
• third-wave feminism
• transfeminism
• trans-feminism
• trans feminism
• transnational feminism
• victim feminism
• whitestream feminism
• world feminism

Origin

• From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina. First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning "the state of being feminine." Sense of "advocacy of women's rights" is from 1895.