Meanings
- feminismAppended to gendered terms to imply that nonbinary and other queer identities are not excluded.
It is also important whether we speak of a women*'s strike, a feminist strike, or even a FLINTA* strike.
2024 June 17, Antonia Kupfer, Constanze Stutz, Contested Social and Ecological Reproduction: Impacts of States, Social Movements, and Civil Society in Times of Crisis, Verlag Barbara Budrich, →ISBN, page 1252 more examples
This system oppresses women* and people with gender identities and sexualities that do not conform to male-heterosexual norms.
2019 February 20, Oksana Shine, “Feminism: Why a women*’s strike on March 8?”, in International ViewpointFemale:Pressure is a transnational network of database and network of women*, AFAB, transgender, transfeminine, transmasculine, intersex (+gender optional), genderqueer, gender nonconforming, a-gender or/and non-binary artists in electronic music and digital arts.
2026, “Resources, Initiatives and Organisations Working Towards a Representative Music Industry”, in Key Change
Origin
- German*
- translingual*
- English-*
From translingual *, a wildcard operator in computing that can represent any text, possibly influenced by German *, used to separate gendered inflections.
More words from translingual, German
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
-*. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-%2A
“-*.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-%2A. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-*,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-%2A.
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