gendercide · noun — the killing of humans or other organisms because of their gender. It carries an Arena rating of 1287, earned across 10 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, gendercide ranks #164 of 17,171 for Scariest Words, #274 of 17,176 for Most Incisive Words, #1,165 of 17,188 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #3,255 of 17,129 for Most Ponderous Words.
Why “gendercide” is a great word
GENDERCIDE — [Noun] The systematic mass killing of persons belonging to a specific gender. From gender + -cide ("killing"), modeled after words like femicide and homicide; a piecewise doublet of genocide. Unlike femicide (which specifies the killing of women, often interpersonally) or genocide (which targets national or ethnic groups), gendercide is the industrialized erasure of a sex or gender identity. It is the silent echo of missing millions from a census, the stark imbalance of a generation's gender ratio, or the clinical logic of a policy that decides who may be born—a subtraction that warps the very architecture of a society's future.
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Etymology
From gender + -cide, by analogy with femicide, homicide, etc. Piecewise doublet of genocide.
noun
- The killing of humans or other organisms because of their gender.
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