androgyne

Examples

• All

• The path of the perfect man... like the Androgyne in Beach's painting.

  The Broken Key (2017)

• One of the masks in the "Masquerade" number is that of an androgyne, whose costume is half-male, half-female.

  Academic text (2001)

• An androgyne has come between us.

  It's Pat (1994)

• The point is that the unique graphic convention of manga can give realness to the androgyne who does not exist in reality.

  Academic text (2014)

• "More significantly, a "man-woman" or androgyne circumvents the existing gender and sexual binary.

  Academic text (2014)

• Thus, although clearly bisexual in her personal life, Virginia Woolf gained and indeed even cultivated a reputation as an androgyne with its inherent sexless ambiguity.

  Academic text (1999)

• The fare is grubby Thai food served on chipped plates, but it's whisked to the tables by gorgeous androgynes dressed like Carmen Miranda.

  Fiction book (1999)

• In Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, she states that "the androgyne is a figure of gender, and the bisexual, at least in modern usage, is a figure of sexuality" (208).

  Academic text (1999)

• Berdyaev's evaluation of Merezhkovsky is simplistic because, in The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo is held up as an example of the androgyne/virgin.

  Academic text (1991)

• An androgyne often challenges traditional notions of gender by presenting a blend of masculine and feminine traits.

Synonyms

G

genderqueer

vsandrogyne

1 8.6

A person who has a gender that is not only male or female

means the same identity but functions as an alternative label

N

non-binary

vsandrogyne

6.6

A person who does not feel like only a man or a woman

also refers to people who identify that way and present a mixed male and female appearance

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology