Philogyny
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Philogyny is fondness, love, or admiration towards women.[1][2] It is the antonym of misogyny.
Cicero reports the word could be used in Greek philosophy to denote being overly fond of women, which was considered a disease along with misogyny.[3][4]
[edit] Etymology
Philogyny comes from philo- (loving) and Greek gynē (woman).
The parallel Greek-based terms with respect to men (males) are philandry for "fondness towards men" and misandry for "hatred of men", while those with respect to humans generally are philanthropy and misanthropy.
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[edit] Notes
- ^ "philogynist - The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) - Oxford Reference Online". Oxford English Dictionary. http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?entry=t140.e58312.
- ^ "WordNet". Princeton University. http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=philogyny. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
- ^ A recent critical text with translation is in Appendix A to Will Deming, Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians 7, pp. 221–226. Misogunia appears in the accusative case on page 224 of Deming, as the fifth word in line 33 of his Greek text. It is split over lines 25–26 in von Arnim.
- ^ Ricardo Salles, Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought: Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005), 485.
