machismo

See also: Machismo

English

Etymology

First attested 1940, from American Spanish machismo, from Spanish macho (“male”), + suffix -ismo (“-ism”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑːˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/, /məˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈkɪz.məʊ/ (due to a mistaken idea that it comes from Italian)

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪzməʊ

Noun

machismo (usually uncountable, plural machismos)

1. (informal) An excessive masculine pride.
2. exaggerated masculinity
   • September 1971, Germaine Greer, "My Mailer Problem", in Esquire

     The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

3. characteristic, behavior or particularity of Male; Macheza.
4. (Latin American) male chauvinism, misogyny
   • 1979 April 7, Rebecca Chase, “PSP Supports Gay Rights”, in Gay Community News, page 1:

     PSP [Puerto Rican Socialist Party] spokesperson Victor Lopez-Tosado told GCN: " […] The party is mainly organized in a Latin American country where oppression, as a result of machismo, etc., to homosexuals is very common."

   • 2017, Sarah A. Topol, “Sons and Daughters”, in Harper's Magazine‎^[1]:

     The Dominican Republic is traditionally regarded as a patriarchal island brimming with machismo — where, indeed, a recent U.S. ambassador was publicly vilified for bringing his husband to his posting. It was, and is, an unlikely place to find an enclave of acceptance. So what explains this unique tolerance?

Synonyms

• machoism
• machoness

Coordinate terms

• femismo (rare)

Related terms

• macho
• machoism
• machoistic
• machoistically

Translations

exaggerated masculinity

• Basque: matxismo
• Catalan: masclisme (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大男子主義 / 大男子主义 (zh) (dànánzǐzhǔyì)

• Esperanto: maĉismo (eo)
• Finnish: miehevyys (fi) (property), machoilu (fi) (instance)
• French: machisme (fr) m
• Galician: machismo (gl) m
• German: Machismo (de) m
• Icelandic: karlremba (is) f
• Italian: machismo (it), maschilismo (it), gallismo m
• Japanese: マッチョ
• Latin: masculismus
• Polish: machismo (pl) n
• Portuguese: machismo (pt) m
• Russian: мачи́зм (ru) m (mačízm)
• Spanish: machismo (es) m

See also

• braggadocio
• marianismo
• masculinism
• testeria

Anagrams

• machoism

Galician

Etymology

From macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃismo/ [maˈt͡ʃiz̺.mʊ]
• Rhymes: -ismo

Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)

1. male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism

Related terms

• machista
• macho

Italian

Noun

machismo m (plural machismi)

1. machismo

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish machismo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʂis.mɔ/
• Rhymes: -ismɔ
• Syllabification: ma‧chis‧mo

Noun

machismo n (indeclinable)

1. machismo (exaggerated masculinity)

Related terms

noun

• macho

 

Further reading

• machismo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃiz.mu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃiz.mu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /maˈʃiʒ.mu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃiz.mo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /maˈʃiʒ.mu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /maˈʃiʒ.mu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃiʒ.mu/

• Hyphenation: ma‧chis‧mo

Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)

1. male chauvinism, bigotry against women
2. (by extension) sexism
3. machismo

Antonyms

• femismo

Related terms

• machista
• macho

Spanish

Etymology

From macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃismo/ [maˈt͡ʃiz.mo]
• Rhymes: -ismo
• Syllabification: ma‧chis‧mo

Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)

1. male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism (a belief in the innate superiority of men over women)

   Antonym: hembrismo

Related terms

• machista m or f by sense
• macho

 

Further reading

• “machismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10