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Showing characteristics of both sexes
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androgyny
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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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Androgyny " is a 2001 hybrid rock / pop / funk song released by alternative rock group Garbage as the lead single from their third studio album, Beautiful Garbage . Released worldwide in September 2001, "Androgyny" represented a shift in the group's style, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. showing characteristics of both sexes [syn: hermaphroditism , bisexuality ]
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.
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.