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androgyny

[ UK /ˈændɹəd‍ʒˌɪni/ ]
[ US /ænˈdɹɔdʒəni/ ]
NOUN
  1. showing characteristics of both sexes

How To Use androgyny In A Sentence

  • Potentially the hermaphrodite dissolves gender difference and, at least in its associated idea of androgyny, has become acceptable.
  • One or two of the earlier photos reveal an intriguing androgyny not normally associated with the actress.
  • The Melbourne Writers Centre is dominated by women who will only tolerate strangely docile feminised men, who build towards an androgyny and collaborate in a general ‘dumbing down’ of the male.
  • Nomi's look suggested dangerous androgyny, a sexless scariness that drew directly from both glitzy drag and gloomy Gothic ideals.
  • What's wrong with a little - or a lot of - androgyny anyway?
  • Where once it stressed prog-rock pomp and strutting machismo, now it tends to alt-rock introspection and a sly androgyny. Globe and Mail
  • Almond's heavy eyeliner and camp androgyny made middle-aged men, in particular, so uneasy that they suddenly discovered pressing engagements in their potting sheds.
  • Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul. Notes on 'How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision'
  • If androgyny proved unattainable in a small socialist society whose citizens self-selected for radical feminist convictions, how could one bring it about in contemporary America, where most people don't want it?
  • Vaslav Nijinsky rose to stardom as the golden slave in Diaghilev’s ballet, Scheherazade, appearing “in brown body paint, and grinning, and wound with pearls — not so much as a sex object but as sex itself, with all the accouterments of perversity that the fin-de-siècle imagination could supply: exotism, androgyny, enslavement, violence.” Scheherazade Goes West
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