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–noun

1.	the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.

2.	(sometimes initial capital letter) an organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women.

3.	feminine character.

[Origin: 1890–95; < F féminisme; see feminine, -ism

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—Related forms

fem·i·nist, noun, adjective

fem·i·nis·tic, adjective

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n.

Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.
The movement organized around this belief.

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feminism
noun
1.	a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women
2.	the movement aimed at equal rights for women [syn: feminist movement]

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ˈfeminism noun

the thought and actions of people who want to make women's (legal, political, social etc) rights equal to those of men

Arabic:	مَبْدأ المُساواه بين الرَّجُل والمَرأه
Chinese (Simplified):	男女平等主义
Chinese (Traditional):	男女平等主義
Czech:	feminismus
Danish:	feminisme
Dutch:	feminisme
Estonian:	feminism
Finnish:	feminismi
French:	féminisme
German:	der Feminismus
Greek:	φεμινισμός
Hungarian:	feminizmus
Icelandic:	femínismi; kvenfrelsisstefna
Indonesian:	feminisme
Italian:	femminismo

Japanese:	男女同権主義
Korean:	남녀 동권주의
Latvian:	feminisms
Lithuanian:	feminizmas
Norwegian:	kvinne(saks)bevegelse, feminisme
Polish:	feminizm
Portuguese (Brazil):	feminismo
Portuguese (Portugal):	feminismo
Romanian:	feminism
Russian:	феминизм
Slovak:	feminizmus
Slovenian:	feminizem
Spanish:	feminismo
Swedish:	feminism
Turkish:	feminizm, kadın hakları savunuculuğu

See also: feminist, femininity, feminine, "feminism" in any language

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
feminism

The doctrine — and the political movement based on it — that women should have the same economic, social, and political rights as men. (See under “Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology.”)

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