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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ænˈdɹɒd͡ʒ.ɪn.əs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ænˈdɹɑd͡ʒ.ən.əs/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-androgynous.wav Forms: more androgynous [comparative], most androgynous [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɒdʒɪnəs Etymology: From Latin androgynus (“man-woman, hermaphrodite”), from Ancient Greek ἀνδρόγῠνος (andrógŭnos), from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”) + γῠνή (gŭnḗ, “woman”) + -ος (-os, “-ous”, adjectival suffix). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|androgynus||man-woman, hermaphrodite}} Latin androgynus (“man-woman, hermaphrodite”), {{der|en|grc|ἀνδρόγῠνος}} Ancient Greek ἀνδρόγῠνος (andrógŭnos), {{af|en|-ous}} -ous, {{af|grc|ἀνήρ|γῠνή|-ος|nocat=1|pos3=adjectival suffix|t1=man|t2=woman|t3=<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">-ous</i>}} ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”) + γῠνή (gŭnḗ, “woman”) + -ος (-os, “-ous”, adjectival suffix) Head templates: {{en-adj}} androgynous (comparative more androgynous, superlative most androgynous)
  1. Possessing the sex organs of both sexes. Categories (topical): Intersex, LGBTQ, Transgender
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  2. Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex. Translations (pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex): andróxinu (Asturian), androgin (Catalan), 不男不女 (bùnánbùnǚ) (Chinese Mandarin), androgyyninen (Finnish), sukupuolineutraali (Finnish), asexué (French), androgyne (French), andróxino (Galician), geschlechtsneutral (German), androgyn (German), ανδρόγυνος (andrógynos) [masculine] (Greek), uniszex (Hungarian), andraigíneach (Irish), 中性的 (chuuseiteki) (alt: ちゅうせいてき) (Japanese), andrógino (Portuguese), androgin (Romanian), andrógino (Spanish), androgynaidd (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-androgynous-en-adj-34bYG-81 Disambiguation of 'pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex': 8 82 6 4
  3. Possessing qualities of both sexes. Translations (possessing qualities of both sexes): androgyn (Danish), tweeslachtig (Dutch), androgyn (Dutch), hermafrodiet (Dutch), androgyyninen (Finnish), androgyne [feminine, masculine] (French), hermaphrodite (French), androgyn (German), hímnős (Hungarian), androgün (Hungarian), jantina (Indonesian), 両性具有 (ryōsei guyū) (alt: りょうせいぐゆう) (Japanese), қос жынысты (qos jynysty) (Kazakh), androgyniczny [masculine] (Polish), androginiczny [masculine] (Polish), andrógino [masculine] (Portuguese), androgin (Romanian), двупо́лый (dvupólyj) (Russian), andrógino (Spanish), androgynaidd (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-androgynous-en-adj-sRctZpri Disambiguation of 'possessing qualities of both sexes': 22 3 74 2
  4. (of a connector or docking port) Able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting to solely male or solely female connectors or ports.
    Sense id: en-androgynous-en-adj-G4526f8Q
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Gender Synonyms: epicene, unisex, hermaphrodite [proscribed, sometimes], androgenous (english: misspelling; a separate term) Derived forms: androgynously, androgynousness, nonandrogynous, polyandrogynous Related terms: androgyne, androgyny, androgynoplasty, genderqueer, gender bender, hermaphroditic, intersex, monogendered, shehe
Disambiguation of Gender: 0 0 0 0

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Nicknames like Pat, Sam, and Chris are androgynous, used by both men and women.",
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          "ref": "1982, Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Liquid Sky, spoken by Margaret (Anne Carlisle):",
          "text": "And I was taught that to be an actress, one should be fashionable, and to be fashionable is to be androgynous. And I am androgynous not less than David Bowie himself.",
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          "ref": "1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 199:",
          "text": "My name is androgynous, in pronunciation at least – Lauren sounds like the more masculine Loren.",
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          "ref": "2001 [1992], Russell Heng, Lest the Demons Get to Me, revised version January 2001, via National Library Board Singapore, Act 1, page 4:",
          "text": "All the men call me Kim. Suitably androgynous, I suppose. But all the sisters in Bugis St call me by my initials KC.",
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          "ref": "1832 September 1, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Great Minds Androgynous—Philosopher’s Ordinary Language”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 96:",
          "text": "The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous.",
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          "ref": "1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page xi:",
          "text": "The androgynous creative deity was best supplicated or propitiated by offerings concerned with the pleasures of the flesh. In such circumstances, to the worshipper as to the god, licentiousness was not a sin: on the contrary, it was a duty.",
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