gylany

Meaning

Noun

• A social system based on equality of women and men.

Origin

• From Ancient Greek γυνή + English linking and Ancient Greek λύειν, λύω + Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (genitive singular of ἀνήρ) -y; coined by the Austrian-born American cultural historian and author Riane Eisler (born 1931) in writings in the 1980s, including The Chalice and the Blade (1987): see the quotations.