androgyne

/ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/

ÆN · dɹə · d͡ʒaɪn (3 syllables)

English Noun
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Definition

A person who is androgynous.

Etymology

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

Example Sentences

  • "Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne."
  • "The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved."
  • "There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology."
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