Definitions For Mansplaining

Verb

Noun

MANSPLAINING (uncountable) (informal, pejorative) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a woman, in order to appear knowledgeable, or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.

Related terms

Basque: arzalpen Finnish: miesselitys French: mecsplication, m, mecspliquer, m German: Herrklären, n Hebrew: הַסְגַּבְרָה, f, tr=hasgvará Italian: minchiarimento, m Japanese: マンスプレイニング (mansupureiningu) Norwegian: : Bokmål: mansplaining, m, f Spanish: machoexplicación, f

Etymology

, or from mansplain , -ing.

See also

male answer syndrome hepeat

Is Mansplaining a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK NO
English International (SOWPODS) NO
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
17
Words with Friends
24

The word Mansplaining is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends

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