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cisfemininity

cisfemininity noun: the quality of being cisfeminine.

Noun

cisfemininity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being cisfeminine.
    • However, the act of critiquing cisnormativity inevitably presents the critic with a limited set of alternatives: one could argue that transmasculinity is as normal and regular as cismasculinity, cisfemininity, or transfemininity; […]2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered pages
    • But we do need to talk about ourselves: practicing "black trans-cis-terhood"— to use black transfeminist theorist Dora Santana's felicitous phrase—means understanding black queer cisfemininity on its own terms.2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, unnumbered page

Origin of cisfemininity

From cis- + femininity.

Questions about cisfemininity

What does cisfemininity mean?
Cisfemininity means the quality of being cisfeminine.
What part of speech is cisfemininity?
Cisfemininity is a noun.

Words near cisfemininity in the dictionary

  1. ciselements
  2. CISes
  3. cisfemale
  4. cisfemales
  5. cisfeminine
  6. cisfemininity
  7. cisfolk
  8. Cisgangetic
  9. cisgay
  10. cisgender
  11. cisgendered

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