eonism
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eonism
- /ˈi.əˌnɪzəm/
Where it comes from
Coined in 1920 by the British physician and sexologist Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) after Chevalier d'Eon (1728–1810), a French diplomat, spy and soldier who presented as male for 49 years, then as a female for 33. Ellis had previously used the term sexo-aesthetic inversion.
noun
- The pretence of being the opposite sex, especially that by a man of being a woman; transvestism. The chief of these intermediate sexual anomalies are: (1) physical hermaphroditism in its various stages; (2) gynandromorphism, or eunuchoidism, in which men possess characters resembling those of males who have been early castrated and women possess similarly masculine characters; (3) sexo-esthetic
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noun pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism
| Français | éonisme |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Eonismus, Transgender |
| Italiano | eonismo |
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