Gynoids

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Artificial life forms engineered to imitate women in looks and actions
2. Technological constructs that present female traits and behaviors, often used for companionship or interaction
3. Robots designed to resemble and mimic female humans in appearance and behavior

Etymology: "Gynoids" is the plural of "gynoid," a word formed by joining the combining form "gyno-," from Greek "gynē" meaning "woman," to "android." The android part is the older and more famous half: "android" was coined from Greek roots meaning "man-like" (andr-, "man," plus -oid, "resembling") to name artificial human figures, and the new word simply swaps in the feminine root. The pattern is a neat piece of word-building. Where "android" names a humanlike machine in male form, "gynoid" marks the same idea as female, so the two words sit side by side as a pair. Readers tend to meet the word in science fiction and robotics writing, where it describes the feminine-presenting machines that the older term could not specify.

Synonyms: female robots, androids, fembots