Misogyn

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Someone who harbors deep hostility or contempt toward women as a group, often expressed in attitudes or behavior
2. A person with a strong, persistent dislike of women, seen in their prejudice and disdain toward the female sex
3. One who holds women in contempt and regards them with hatred or scorn simply because they are female

Etymology: The Greek "misogúnēs" combines "misos", hatred, with "gynē", woman, to name a woman-hater. English borrowed it as a learned word and kept the Greek shape almost intact, so "misogyn" is a noun close to its source, alongside the more familiar "misogyny" and "misogynist" built from the same roots. The "gyn" element is the same Greek stem found in modern medical and scientific terms such as gynecology. Those coinages were formed from classical roots, so the family of words is ancient in its building blocks but modern in its English use. "Misogyn" is the rarer of the set, and most readers will recognise it as a variant of "misogynist".