How to say "feminist" in Japanese

• フェミニストCommon
  nounThe default loanword for 'feminist', covering the usual sense of a person who supports feminism. Suitable in most neutral contexts, from everyday conversation to news and academic writing.
  フェミニストカウンセリングを一言ひとことで説明せつめいするなら、女性じょせいの視点してんにたったカウンセリングということになるでしょうか。↗

  If you sum up feminist counselling in a few words, I suppose it would be counselling done from a woman's standpoint.
• 女権拡張論者じょけんかくちょうろんしゃ
  nounA formal, written term literally meaning an advocate of expanding women's rights; it corresponds to the historical sense of 'feminist' as a campaigner for women's rights. Less common than the loanword.
• 女権論者じょけんろんしゃ
  nounA similar formal term, 'advocate of women's rights', for a person supporting women's rights or feminism. Like 女権拡張論者 it is less common and mostly confined to written contexts.
• フェミ
  nounA colloquial abbreviation covering both 'feminism' and 'feminist'; as a word for a person it is casual or slangy and can carry a dismissive tone, so it is seldom the neutral word you want.

Use 「フェミニスト」 for the ordinary word 'feminist'; the 女権 terms are older, learned alternatives, and 「フェミ」 is a colloquial abbreviation that can also mean feminism itself.

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• フェミニストfeminist
• 女権拡張論者じょけんかくちょうろんしゃfeminist
• 女権論者じょけんろんしゃfeminist
• フェミfeminism