humyn

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noun

Feminist spelling of human

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounhumyn (plural humyns)

plural humyns

  1. nonstandardrareFeminist spelling of human

    Unfortunately, as the quantity of humyns grew, their ethical quality diminished. The Lord performed a moral evaluation of the behavior of humynkind and was not pleased.

    1997, Robert Martin Walker, Politically Correct Old Testament Stories, page 25
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    Beauvoir instead emphasises our fundamental intersubjectivity as humyns, that is, the undeniability of our relatedness to other humyns, and posits that this both shapes (and thus to some extent delimits) but also enables our existence.

    2014, Lucy Nicholas, Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come

Origin

From human, respelled so as not to contain the word man. Compare womyn.

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APA

humyn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humyn

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “humyn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humyn.

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