单词 | androgynity |
释义 | androgynityn. The state or quality of having characteristics of both sexes or of being of indeterminate sex; spec. (originally) hermaphroditism; (now) the state or quality of being neither clearly male nor clearly female in appearance. Cf. androgyny n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of both sexes hermaphroditism1808 androgynism1823 hermaphrodism1828 androgynity1842 bisexuality1842 androgyny1852 bisexualism1865 pseudohermaphroditism1881 asexuality1886 virilism1896 bi-gender1912 intersexuality1916 sex intergrade1916 relative sexuality1926 ambisexuality1938 monoecy1949 testicular feminization (or feminizing)1953 1842 W. B. Macdonald tr. W. F. Erichson Rep. Contributions Nat. Hist. Insects in Rep. Progress Zool. & Bot. (Ray Soc.) 231 Hartig's assumption of the existence of androgynity [Ger. Androgynität] will be disproved. 1899 Alkaloidal Clinic Dec. 761/2 Nor are they endowed with prostate glands, and subject to the ills arising from enlargement of that superfluous relic of a previous state of androgynity. 1958 R. F. C. Hull tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. & Relig.: West & East ii. 175 God's antithetical nature is also expressed in his androgynity. Priscillian therefore calls him ‘masculofoemina’. 1970 Ley Hunter Jan. 12 Is this a suggestion that with boys growing their hair long and wearing frills, and girls having short hair and wearing jeans..there is a movement towards Earthly androgynity. 1995 Times (Nexis) 30 Jan. Men and women wore identical clothes, solving problems of androgynity with differences in hair style, make-up, and sandals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1842 |
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