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gynecophiles

gynecophiles is the plural of gynecophile.

Meaning of gynecophile

Noun

gynecophile (plural gynecophiles)

  1. Someone sexually attracted to women.
  2. A lesbian; a homosexual woman.
    • Equivalent terms for lesbian relationships given by Hirschfeld were korophile, parthenophile, gynecophile, and graophile.2015, Wayne Dynes, Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Volume II, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1333
  3. A lesbian (homosexual woman) attracted to other adult women (as contrast to young women or old women)
    • According to the age of the attracting person homosexuals are divisible into ephebophiles (lovers of youths, 14-21), androphiles (grown men up to the period of old age),[…] The corresponding divisions in women are parthenophiles (lovers of young women, virgins), gynecophiles (lovers of adult...1914, L. Pierce Clark, “A critical digest of some of the newer work upon homosexuality in man and woman”, in State Hospital Bulletin, volume VII, New York State Hospital Commission, page 352

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Questions about gynecophiles

What is gynecophiles the plural of?
Gynecophiles is the plural of gynecophile.

Words near gynecophiles in the dictionary

  1. gynecopathologist
  2. gynecopathologists
  3. gynecopathology
  4. gynecopathy
  5. gynecophile
  6. gynecophiles
  7. gynecophilia
  8. gynecophilic
  9. gynecophobia
  10. gynecophoral
  11. gynecophore

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