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-megalia

  1. variant of -megaly.

    cardiomegalia.



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The gesture - involving the thumb and index finger pinched close together - was the logo of Megalia, the now-defunct radical feminist online community widely perceived to be anti-male.

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The T-shirt was being sold by Megalia to finance lawsuits brought by women against men they alleged had ill-treated them.

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Megalia is radical but even within its ranks there is a feeling that it may go too far, over, for example, whether to out gay men who marry women as a cover for their homosexuality.

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That sexism, Megalia activist Alex Song says, feeds off images of "sexually exaggerated" women on screen.

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There's no doubt Megalia is controversial and confrontational.

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When To Use

What does -megalia mean?

The combining form -megalia is used like a suffix meaning “irregular enlargement” of an organ or part of the body. It appears in a few medical terms, especially in pathology.The form -megalia ultimately comes from the Greek é, meaning “great, large.”The form -megalia is a less-common variant of -megaly.Want to know more? Read our 51Թs That Use -megaly article.Corresponding forms of -megalia and -megaly combined to the beginning of words is megalo- and megal-. Learn more at our 51Թs That Use articles for the forms.A variant of megalo- that you may be familiar with is mega-, as in megaphone or megabyte. Mega- is also used as a unit of measure prefix to indicate a fact of one million (e.g., megahertz).

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