Philogyny
Encyclopedia
Philogyny is fondness, love, or admiration towards women. It is the antonym
of misogyny
.
Cicero reports the word could be used in Greek philosophy to denote being overly fond of women, which was considered a disease along with misogyny
.
The parallel Greek
-based terms with respect to men (males)
are philandry for "fondness towards men" and misandry
for "hatred of men", while those with respect to humans generally are philanthropy
and misanthropy
.
Antonym
In lexical semantics, opposites are words that lie in an inherently incompatible binary relationship as in the opposite pairs male : female, long : short, up : down, and precede : follow. The notion of incompatibility here refers to the fact that one word in an opposite pair entails that it is not...
of misogyny
Misogyny
Misogyny is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. Philogyny, meaning fondness, love or admiration towards women, is the antonym of misogyny. The term misandry is the term for men that is parallel to misogyny...
.
Cicero reports the word could be used in Greek philosophy to denote being overly fond of women, which was considered a disease along with misogyny
Misogyny
Misogyny is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. Philogyny, meaning fondness, love or admiration towards women, is the antonym of misogyny. The term misandry is the term for men that is parallel to misogyny...
.
Etymology
Philogyny comes from philo- (loving) and Greek gynē (woman).The parallel Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
-based terms with respect to men (males)
are philandry for "fondness towards men" and misandry
Misandry
Misandry is the hatred or dislike of men or boys.Misandry comes from Greek misos and anēr, andros . Misandry is the antonym of philandry, the fondness towards men, love, or admiration of them...
for "hatred of men", while those with respect to humans generally are philanthropy
Philanthropy
Philanthropy etymologically means "the love of humanity"—love in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In modern practical terms, it is "private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of...
and misanthropy
Misanthropy
Misanthropy is generalized dislike, distrust, disgust, contempt or hatred of the human species or human nature. A misanthrope, or misanthropist is someone who holds such views or feelings...
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