feministische

Feministische is an inflected adjective meaning “feminist” used in Dutch and German to describe something related to feminism or to feminist ideas, movements, or people. As an adjective, feministische precedes a noun and agrees with it in gender, number, and case in the respective language.

In Dutch, typical constructions include feministische beweging (feminist movement) or feministische theorie (feminist theory). In German, it occurs before feminine nouns such as feministische Theorie (feminist theory) or feministische Bewegungen (feminist movements); German adjectives decline to match the case, article, and pluralization of the noun they modify. The noun forms related to the movement differ across languages: in German one would say Feministin (female feminist) or Feminist (male form), while Dutch often uses feministe as a noun for a feminist.

Etymology and usage context: the root is feminism, derived from the word feminist, which itself traces to the Latin femina (woman) via French and English. The suffix -istische is a common Germanic and Dutch way to form adjectives from a base noun or stem. As a term, feministische is neutral in itself and widely used in academic, media, and public discourse to describe theory, activism, or positions associated with feminist thought. The precise connotation depends on context, tone, and the surrounding discourse.