# machismo
## English
### Etymology

First attested 1940, from American Spanish machismo, from Spanish macho (“male”), + suffix -ismo (“-ism”).

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /mɑːˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/, /məˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/
* (UK) IPA: /məˈkɪz.məʊ/ (due to a mistaken idea that it comes from Italian)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪzməʊ

### Noun

machismo (usually uncountable, plural machismos)
* (informal) An excessive masculine pride.
* exaggerated masculinity
** September 1971, Germaine Greer, "My Mailer Problem", in Esquire
    The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
* characteristic, behavior or particularity of Male; Macheza.
* (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?

#### Synonyms

* machoism
* machoness

#### Coordinate terms

* femismo (rare)

#### Related terms

* macho
* machoism
* machoistic
* machoistically

#### Translations
### See also

* braggadocio
* marianismo
* masculinism
* testeria

### Anagrams

* machoism

## Galician
### Etymology

From macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈt͡ʃismo/ [maˈt͡ʃiz̺.mʊ]
* Rhymes: -ismo

### Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)
* male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism

#### Related terms

* machista
* macho

## Italian
### Noun

machismo m (plural machismi)
* machismo

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish machismo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈt͡ʂis.mɔ/
* Rhymes: -ismɔ
* Syllabification: ma‧chis‧mo

### Noun

machismo n (indeclinable)
* machismo (exaggerated masculinity)

#### Related terms

* macho

### Further reading

* machismo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /maˈʃiz.mu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /maˈʃiz.mu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /maˈʃiʒ.mu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /maˈʃiz.mo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /maˈʃiʒ.mu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /maˈʃiʒ.mu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /maˈt͡ʃiʒ.mu/
* Hyphenation: ma‧chis‧mo

### Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)
* male chauvinism, bigotry against women
* (by extension) sexism
* machismo

#### Antonyms

* femismo

#### Related terms

* machista
* macho

## Spanish
### Etymology

From macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈt͡ʃismo/ [maˈt͡ʃiz.mo]
* Rhymes: -ismo
* Syllabification: ma‧chis‧mo

### Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)
* male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism (a belief in the innate superiority of men over women)
    Antonym: hembrismo

#### Related terms

* machista m or f by sense
* macho

### Further reading

* “machismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10