womansplaining

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womansplaining

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Blend of woman + explaining, modelled on mansplaining.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of womansplain

noun

  1. derogatory, informal, uncountable Condescending explanation of something by a woman, particularly to a man. The War on Women perpetrators keep trying to tell us that government not funding something equates to government banning something. That must be womansplaining, I guess? Except I’m not willing to have women made out to be idiots. So maybe “liberalsplaining.”

    Similar: femsplaining

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@misc{womansplaining_2026,
  title = {womansplaining},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/womansplaining},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}