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unwoman

1 9.9

A woman who loses her rights and recognition and is sent away

noun
/ˌʌnˈwʌmən/

Slur

: [insulto ofensivo: mujer despojada de su condición de mujer]

In the novel, she became an unwoman after being cast out from society.

Examples

The government labeled her an unwoman for speaking out.
In the oppressive regime, anyone labeled as an unwoman was stripped of her rights and forced to live in the shadows.
In the novel, anyone who defied the rules risked being declared an unwoman and sent to the colonies.
She feared becoming an unwoman if she continued to speak out against the authorities.
The regime used the threat of being labeled an unwoman to control the female population.
Under the new laws, women who opposed the government's directives were declared unwomen and faced public shaming.
Being an unwoman means losing the recognition and respect that once defined her existence in society.

Antonyms

woman

∞ 1.0

Adult females considered together as a group

Surface Forms

unwoman singular

unwomen plural

Morphology

unwoman = woman (semi-transparent) = un + woman

The negative prefix 'un-' applied to 'woman' is clear, but the specific dystopian sense of being deprived of status or ostracized is context-specific and not a default meaning of 'un-' + noun.

Etymology

Unwoman comes from the common prefix un- meaning 'not' and woman, and it was made famous by a dystopian novel where women were sent away and lost their rights, so an unwoman is someone 'not treated as a woman' and stripped of status.