machismoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /mɑːˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/, /məˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /mæˈt͡ʃɪz.məʊ/, /məˈkɪz.məʊ/ (due to a mistaken idea that it comes from Italian)
• 韻: -ɪzməʊ

名詞

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:

     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?

同意語

• machoism
• machoness

等位語

• femismo (rare)

派生語

関連する語

• macho
• machoism
• machoistic
• machoistically

参考

• braggadocio
• marianismo
• masculinism
• testeria

アナグラム

• machoism