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cisness

cisness noun: the quality of being cisgender.

Noun (1)

cisness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being cisgender.
    • What's more, the assumed cisness of children during that century means that alongside Val and the other trans children in this book were countless, unnamed others whose experience is still hidden from view.2018, Julian Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child, unnumbered page
    • Cisgender is assumed to be the “default” identity; mainstream culture is saturated with cisness and cisnormativity.2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 69

Noun (2)

cisness (uncountable)

  1. (Crip slang) Business.

Origin of cisness

From cis- + -ness.

From c- + a corruption of business (to which, cf. bizness).

Questions about cisness

What does cisness mean?
Cisness means the quality of being cisgender.
What part of speech is cisness?
Cisness is a noun.

Words near cisness in the dictionary

  1. cismontane
  2. cisn't
  3. Cisnero
  4. Cisneros
  5. Cisneroses
  6. cisness
  7. cisnormative
  8. cisnormativity
  9. CISO
  10. cisoceanic
  11. cisoid

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