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autogynophilia

autogynophilia is the alternative form of autogynephilia.

Meaning of autogynephilia

Noun

autogynephilia (uncountable, abbreviation AGP)

  1. 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

Forms of autogynophilia

abbreviationAGP

Questions about autogynophilia

What is autogynophilia the alternative form of?
Autogynophilia is the alternative form of autogynephilia.

Words near autogynophilia in the dictionary

  1. autogynephiliacs
  2. autogynephilic
  3. autogynephilics
  4. autogynesmile
  5. autogynesmiles
  6. autogynophilia
  7. autogyro
  8. autogyros
  9. autohaemorrhaging
  10. autohaemotherapy
  11. autohagiographer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autogynophilia (page history and authors); autogynephilia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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