cismasculinity
cismasculinity noun: the state or quality of being cismasculine.
Noun
cismasculinity (countable and uncountable, plural cismasculinities)
- The state or quality of being cismasculine.
- For 70 respondents (40 per cent), transmasculinity is unequivocally and qualitatively different from cismasculinity.2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page
- […] what the production of a new, 'more disruptive' gender identity does is obscure the fact that cismasculinity and cisfemininity are themselves precarious, fluid and complicated.2018, Rob Cover, Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era, unnumbered page
Forms of cismasculinity
| plural | cismasculinities |
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Origin of cismasculinity
From cis- + masculinity.
Questions about cismasculinity
- What does cismasculinity mean?
- Cismasculinity means the state or quality of being cismasculine.
- What part of speech is cismasculinity?
- Cismasculinity is a noun.
- What is the plural of cismasculinity?
- The plural of cismasculinity is cismasculinities.
Words near cismasculinity in the dictionary
Source and license
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