androgynous
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8.4
- adjective
- /ˌændrəˈdʒɪnəs/
- Specialized
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androgénico
- She looked older than her husband and was so stooped and wizened by age that her body had reverted to a childlike androgynous state.
Examples
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In describing these characteristics, Moya signals paradoxically that feminine behavior in boys with androgynous characteristics may be tolerated and even reinforced in this Dominican culture.
Academic text (2017) -
And if I I tend to draw an upper lip on guys when I want a more androgynous little bit more femme look.
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We were not couples when we were first created, all right, we were androgynous beings, but we screwed up.
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And if I I tend to draw an upper lip on guys when I want a more androgynous little bit more femme look.
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Maybe, androgynous.
Fiction book (1997) -
All right, So one set of male organs, one set of female organs, the androgynous ones, you know, man Andros womangune.
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One of the signature pieces is a pre-Dogon wooden androgynous figure from the Bandiagara cliffs that dates to the tenth or eleventh century.
Academic text (2006) -
The model displayed an androgynous look, wearing both masculine and feminine clothing.
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In the art exhibition, there was an androgynous statue that beautifully blended features of both genders.
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His androgynous appearance often led people to question his gender identity.
Synonyms
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9.9
An animal that has male body parts on one side and female body parts on the other
An animal with both male and female body parts or colours
Having body parts or traits of both male and female
Having a style that is not clearly male or female
Antonyms
How Masculine
- Informal
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6.7
79
3.0
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3.7
- Specialized
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8.4
173
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
androgynous = androgyny (semi-transparent) = andro + gyn + ous
Built on the same Greek-derived base meaning 'male+female' with '-ous' forming an adjective; the lexical parts signal the sense but rely on technical combining forms.
Etymology
Androgynous comes from Greek roots andr- 'man' and gyn- 'woman', and in biology it points to having both male and female parts. So, in a medical or biological sense, androgynous means a body that shows both kinds of sexual parts or features.