humyn

English

Etymology

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

Noun

humyn (plural humyns)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of human
   • 1997, Robert Martin Walker, Politically Correct Old Testament Stories, page 25:

     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.

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

     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.

Derived terms

• humynkind