autogynephilia
Syllables: au·to·gyn·e·phil·iaUK/ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/US/ˌɔ.toʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/
autogynephilia noun: in Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the supposed paraphilic tendency of a male person to be sexually aroused by the thought of being a female, sometimes framed as a form of gender identity disorder or transvestic fetishism.
Noun
autogynephilia (uncountable, abbreviation AGP)
- In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the supposed paraphilic tendency of a male person to be sexually aroused by the thought of being a female, sometimes framed as a form of gender identity disorder or transvestic fetishism.
- Charles Moser (2010), “Blanchard’s Autogynephilia Theory: A Critique”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 57, number 6, →DOI, pages 790–809: “If autogynephilia were a paraphilia, we would expect that MTFs would want estrogens to feminize themselves, but decline anti-androgens or report that they...
- Synonyms:
- autogynophilia
Synonyms of autogynephilia
Forms of autogynephilia
| abbreviation | AGP |
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Origin of autogynephilia
From auto- + gynephilia.
Words formed from autogynephilia
Words that rhyme with autogynephilia
- aquaphilia
- bibliophilia
- biophilia
- microphilia
- necrophilia
- philia
- -philia
- ephebophilia
- geophilia
- gerontophilia
- pedophilia
- trichophilia
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- vorarephilia
- xenophilia
- zoophilia
- androphilia
- aptophilia
- asphyxiophilia
- autoandrogynemorphophilia
- autoandrophilia
- autogynandromorphophilia
- autonepiophilia
- cilia
- claustrophilia
- coprophilia
- discophilia
- eproctophilia
- glossophilia
- haemophilia
- inflatophilia
- Japanophilia
- juvenilia
- Kabylia
- klismaphilia
- Laconophilia
- limnophilia
- lithophilia
- logophilia
- lygophilia
- macrophilia
- milia
- nyctophilia
- opacarophilia
- plushophilia
- scopophilia
- sillier
- teratophilia
- urophilia
Questions about autogynephilia
- What does autogynephilia mean?
- Autogynephilia means in Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the supposed paraphilic tendency of a male person to be sexually aroused by the thought of being a female, sometimes framed as a form of gender identity disorder or transvestic fetishism.
- What part of speech is autogynephilia?
- Autogynephilia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce autogynephilia?
- Autogynephilia is pronounced /ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/ (UK).
Words near autogynephilia in the dictionary
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