What is another word for androgynous?

Pronunciation: [andɹˈɒd͡ʒɪnəs] (IPA)

Androgynous is a term used to describe someone who has both masculine and feminine qualities, or someone who displays attributes that are traditionally seen as being male or female. Some synonyms for androgynous include gender-neutral, unisex, and non-binary. Other words that are often used to describe someone who is androgynous include ambiguous, androgyne, and genderqueer. Additionally, the term "tomboy" is sometimes used to describe a girl who displays masculine traits, while "effeminate" is used to describe a boy who displays feminine traits. Overall, there are many different words that can be used to describe someone who identifies as androgynous, and each term carries its own unique meaning and connotations.

Synonyms for Androgynous:

What are the hypernyms for Androgynous?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for androgynous?

Androgynous is a word used to describe someone or something that is neither definitively masculine nor feminine in appearance or behavior. Its antonyms include the words "masculine" and "feminine," which describe behaviors and appearances that are typically associated with males and females, respectively. Other antonyms include "binary," "polarized," and "dichotomous," all of which describe situations or characteristics that are distinctly one or the other. Additionally, words like "unambiguous," "decisive," and "unequivocal" indicate a clear and distinct identity, the opposite of the ambiguous and fluid identity of androgynous individuals.

What are the antonyms for Androgynous?

Usage examples for Androgynous

According to occult teachings, there was a time before man was differentiated into sexes-that is, when he was androgynous.
"The Woman's Bible Part I. Comments on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Part II. Comments on the Old and New Testaments from Joshua to Revelation."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From the Ancient of Days a new divine being had been given off-the Holy King, the Messiah, the Primal Man, androgynous, Perfect, who would harmonize the jarring chords, restore the spiritual unity of the Universe.
"Dreamers of the Ghetto"
I. Zangwill
It escaped him as it has escaped later biologists that Man, the highest of the vertebrates, is still androgynous.
"Feminism and Sex-Extinction"
Arabella Kenealy

Famous quotes with Androgynous

  • Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
    Rita Mae Brown
  • God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
    Olympia Dukakis
  • Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
    Phyllis Schlafly
  • As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care.
    Steven Tyler
  • We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.
    James Baldwin

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