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cishetero

cishetero adjective: cisgender and heterosexual.

Adjective

cishetero (comparative more cishetero, superlative most cishetero)

  1. (informal) Cisgender and heterosexual.
    • There's also a lot of pressure to behave or conform to cishetero standards, but it's okay to be diverse, have differences in nuance.2019, “Alyia”, in Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney, editors, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum, page 119
    • This framework does not impact only cishetero men and women.2020, Alex Iantaffi, Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma, page 112

Synonyms of cishetero

Forms of cishetero

comparativemore cishetero
superlativemost cishetero

Origin of cishetero

From cis- + hetero.

Questions about cishetero

What does cishetero mean?
Cishetero means cisgender and heterosexual.
What part of speech is cishetero?
Cishetero is an adjective.

Words near cishetero in the dictionary

  1. cisgirls
  2. cisguy
  3. cisguys
  4. Cishan
  5. cishet
  6. cishetero
  7. cisheteronormative
  8. cisheteronormativity
  9. cisheteropatriarchal
  10. cisheteropatriarchies
  11. cisheteropatriarchy

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