Gynaecocoenic

/dʒɪˌniːkəkəʊˈiːnɪk/ adjective

Definition

Relating to a social system where women and men share the same communal living spaces or society.

Etymology

From Greek 'gyne' (woman) and 'koinos' (common), with the suffix '-ic'; a rare anthropological term developed in 19th-century sociology to describe societies with integrated gender spaces.

Kelly Says

This impossibly long word was created to describe something simple—when women and men live and work together equally—showing how scientists sometimes make terminology more complex than the ideas themselves.

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