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The pretence of being the opposite sex, especially that by a man of being a woman; transvestism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, sexology, sexuality
Examples
- 2013, C. N. Armstrong, 12: Transvestism, D. Robertson Smith, William M. Davidson (editors), Symposium on Nuclear Sex, Elsevier (Butterworth-Heinemann), page 88, Homosexuals do not as a rule want to change their sex and identity. This is the fundamental anomaly in eonism.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
éonisme
— pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism
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German:
Eonismus
— pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism
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German:
Transgender
— pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism
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Italian:
eonismo
— pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism
