antiheroine

See also: anti-heroine

English

Alternative forms

• anti-heroine

Etymology

anti- +‎ heroine.

Noun

antiheroine (plural antiheroines)

1. (literature, roleplaying games) A female protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals; a female antihero.
   • 2009 January 18, Charles Isherwood, “Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages”, in New York Times:

     Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House”.

Related terms

• antihero

Translations

female antihero

• Catalan: antiheroïna f
• Czech: antihrdinka f
• French: antihéroïne (fr) f, anti-héroïne (fr) f
• Galician: antiheroína f
• Greek: αντιηρωίδα (el) f (antiiroḯda)
• Macedonian: антихерои́на f (antiheroína)
• Portuguese: anti-heroína f
• Russian: антигерои́ня f (antigeroínja)
• Spanish: antiheroína