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feminism|ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m|
[f. L. fēmin-a + -ism.]
1. The qualities of females.
1851in Ogilvie.
2. [After F. féminisme.] Advocacy of the rights of women (based on the theory of equality of the sexes). (Cf. womanism.)
1895Athenæum 27 Apr. 533/2 Her intellectual evolution and her coquettings with the doctrines of ‘feminism’ are traced with real humour. 1908Daily Chron. 7 May 4/7 In Germany feminism is openly Socialistic. 1909Ibid. 29 May 4/4 Suffragists, suffragettes, and all the other phases in the crescendo of feminism.
3. Path. The development of female secondary sexual characteristics in a male.
1882Syd. Soc. Lex. II, Feminism, the qualities of a female. Also Lorain's term for the arrest of development of the male towards the age of puberty, which gives to it somewhat of the attributes of the female. 1945H. Burrows Biol. Actions Sex Hormones xxiii. 453 The symptoms of adrenal virilism and feminism are caused by an excessive production of androgen or oestrogen by the adrenal. |