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ciscentric

ciscentric adjective: centering on or overemphasizing cissexuality and/or cissexual people.

Adjective

ciscentric (comparative more ciscentric, superlative most ciscentric)

  1. Centering on or overemphasizing cissexuality and/or cissexual people.
    • Such a universalizing presumption of cissexuality is ciscentric and cissexist because it assumes that the authenticity of femininity is rooted in the female body, that cissexuality is the correct or superior gender identity, and that all 'female' bodies hence yield and are inhabited by...2012, Einar Ragnar Jónsson, "Why Feminism Needs to be Trans-Inclusive, or: The Bodily Consequences of Cisnormativity", Bluestockings, Fall 2012, page 39
    • I know too much to think any one person responsible for the frightful way these inherently classist, sexist, racist, ciscentric, and appallingly heteronormative systems interact in the world.2013, Michael Smith, "Religion Exhausts Worldly Tolerance", The Bachelor (Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana), Volume 105, Issue 24, 19 April 2013, page 5

Forms of ciscentric

comparativemore ciscentric
superlativemost ciscentric
alternative formcis-centric

Origin of ciscentric

From cis- + -centric.

Questions about ciscentric

What does ciscentric mean?
Ciscentric means centering on or overemphasizing cissexuality and/or cissexual people.
What part of speech is ciscentric?
Ciscentric is an adjective.

Words near ciscentric in the dictionary

  1. cisboys
  2. CISC
  3. Ciscaucasia
  4. Ciscaucasian
  5. Ciscaucasus
  6. ciscentric
  7. ciscentrism
  8. cisco
  9. ciscoes
  10. ciscoette
  11. ciscoettes

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