hypermasculinism

noun

Excessive masculinity.

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Meanings

nounhypermasculinism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExcessive masculinity.

    Hyperracial fantasies likewise exist throughout the historical avant-garde, and gender politics take a particularly extreme form, leading to hypermasculinism.

    2009, Carrie Noland, Barrett Watten, Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement, Palgrave MacMillan

Origin

From hyper- + masculinism or hypermasculine + -ism.

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