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androgyny

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
'''Androgyny ''' is the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics. Gender ambiguity may be found in fashion , gender identity , sexual identity , or sexual lifestyle . It can also refer to one's singing or speaking voice.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Androgyny \An*drog"y*ny\, Androgynism \An*drog"y*nism\, n. Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833; see androgynous .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 hermaphroditism. 2 The state of having traits of both male and female genders. (from the mid 19th century) 3 The state of appearing to be neither feminine nor masculine.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. showing characteristics of both sexes [syn: hermaphroditism , bisexuality ]

Usage examples of androgyny.

Tall, hipless and small-breasted to the point of clinical androgyny, Madame Sosostris had the body most of her clients secretly craved, whether or not they realized it.

There, crammed in one of the bottom divisions, was a novel written by Lamont Withers, who had been the gabbiest, most annoying member of my Joyce seminar at Columbia and now taught at Bennington A Vision of Fish, an experimental novel disguised by its jacket drawing of two embracing androgynies as a romance.