Meanings
- informalrareuncountableExaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
i'm not doing any meds. perhaps it's my femismo that keeps me saying no to meds, perhaps it's that i don't want to mask other things.
1998 July 7, Epona [username], “first time post”, in alt.support.anxiety-panic (Usenet)2 more examples
All feminists' talk about a woman's superior ability to identify and express their feelings is just that, TALK. It's just more femismo designed to inflate the deflated self-esteems of mean spirited women.
1996 October 13, westel [username], “Re: May/December Emotional Facelifts”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet)Do these women, like Damon Cross in Wright's The Outsider or Bigger Thomas in Native Son, succeed in establishing their own autonomy only through violence, forging a "femismo" or female counterpart to the "machismo" brutality of a Mailer protagonist?
2000, Marilyn Maxwell, Male Rage, Female Fury: Gender and Violence in American Fiction, University Press of America, published 2000, →ISBN, page 117
Origin
Translations
German Femismus
- Femismusstrong femine pride
Portuguese femismo
- femismostrong femine pride
Spanish hembrismo
- hembrismostrong femine pride
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femismo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/femismo
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