Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strong or exaggerated sense of traditional femininity, especially in some Latin American cultures, placing great value on forbearance, self-sacrifice, nurturance, and the limiting of sex to marriage.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Specifically in this case, women take marianismo (the cult of the virgin Mary) and use it to create spaces for protest.
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The thing I've discovered about marianismo is that it requires a special kind of person to be on the receiving end.
JSOnline.com 2010
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Of course, marianismo to this degree has fallen out of favor with modern women.
JSOnline.com 2010
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Of course, marianismo to this degree has fallen out of favor with modern women.
JSOnline.com 2010
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Of course, marianismo to this degree has fallen out of favor with modern women.
JSOnline.com 2010
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The thing I've discovered about marianismo is that it requires a special kind of person to be on the receiving end.
JSOnline.com 2010
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For one thing, no one really knows how much the traditional gender role attributes of machismo and marianismo - idealizing the Virgin Mary - actually influence today's Latino adolescents.
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In the standard definition of marianismo are such "virtues" as hyper-femininity, modesty, spirituality but, above all else it seemed to me growing up, passivity and compliance when it came to her husband - a good man but macho to a fault - and an enveloping kindness and nurturing when it came to us, her three sons.
JSOnline.com 2010
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The female ideal of marianismo includes being self-sacrificing, pure, and silent.
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The thing I've discovered about marianismo is that it requires a special kind of person to be on the receiving end.
JSOnline.com 2010
glypheme commented on the word marianismo
The counterpart of machismo; the spirit of the virgin Mary.
May 30, 2014