ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Gynocentrism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Gynocentrism is a noun meaning An ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females.

Meaning

An ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females.

Example Sentences

We Americans have not so much need to take his admonitions to heart as Continental Europeans, seeing that captious critics are prone to regard us as suffering rather from gynocentrism than anthropocentrism.

Antonyms for gynocentrism

Common opposites include androcentrism, phallocentrism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include androcentrism, feminocentrism, vaginocentrism, phallocentrism, heterocentrism, cisheteropatriarchy.

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