Etymology

manosphere

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Today it means: The domain or totality of blogs and websites associated with the men's rights movement, passport bro's, NoFap, MGTOW, PUA, the redpill movement and incels. Full definition →

English sphere ← Middle English spere ← Old French sphere
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  2. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  3. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  4. Old Englishmann
  5. Middle Englishman
  6. Englishman
  7. Ancient Greekσφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)
  8. Latinsphaera
  9. Late Latinsphēra
  10. Old Frenchsphere
  11. Middle Englishspere
  12. Englishsphere
  13. English todaymanosphere

From man + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.