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单词 eonism
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Eonismn.

/ˈiːəʊnɪz(ə)m/
Forms: Also eonism.
Etymology: < the name of the Chevalier Charles d'Éon (1728–1810), a French adventurer who wore women's clothes: see -ism suffix.
Transvestism, esp. by a man.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing clothes associated with opposite sex
travestiment1832
cross-dressing1911
transvestitism1912
transvestism1913
Eonism1928
transvesticism1934
1928 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex VII. i. 10 It was clearly a typical case of what Hirschfeld later termed ‘transvestism’ and what I would call ‘sexo-aesthetic inversion’, or more simply, ‘Eonism’.
1970 Times 5 Sept. 8/4 Today we can see that the Chevalier was an a-sexual transvestite. From his name Havelock Ellis coined the term eonism to describe this minor deviation.

Derivatives

ˈEonist n. one who wears the clothes of the opposite sex.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing clothes associated with opposite sex > person
berdache1806
hijra1838
she-male1842
female impersonator1857
transvestite1911
Eonist1928
transvestist1928
transvestitist1930
drag queen1941
moffie1960
TV1960
shim1973
cross-dresser1976
tranny1979
1928 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex VII. i. 12 The Eonist (though sometimes emphatically of the apparent sex) sometimes shows real physical approximations towards the opposite sex.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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