English Explanatory Dictionary

gynemimetic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A transfeminine individual or trans woman who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
adj
  1. Transfeminine.

Word forms

gynemimetic gynemimetics

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”) + μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”); equivalent to gyne- + mimetic. Literally “female mimic”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.

Related words

gynemimesis gynemimetophilia andromimetic andromimesis transgender trans woman
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