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gynomania

gynomania noun: synonym of transvestism.

Noun

gynomania

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of transvestism.
    • The case of gynomania above cited has never before been published, but we can vouch for its truth: and we fear that it is not an isolated case.1877, Scientific American - Volume 36; Volume 36, page 41
    • Sometimes the disease takes the form of sexual excitement being produced in a man by wearing articles of female attire. This has been called "gynomania."1881, Gaillard's Medical Journal - Volume 31, page 368
    Synonyms:
    transvestism

Examples of gynomania in a sentence

  • In sensual love (cytheromania, gynomania, andromania, satyriasis, nymphomania) one can find the same phenomenon of psychological synecdoche.1899, Charles Féré, The Pathology of emotions, page 393:
  • The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait.1919, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel: From the Beginning to the Close of the 19th Century:
  • In place of phallocentrism, the narratives preoccupy us with the gynomania of brown Sello's Medusa.1991 Autumn, Linda Susan Beard, “Bessie Head's Syncretic Fictions: The Reconceptualization of Power and the Recovery of the Ordinary”, in...

Synonyms of gynomania

Origin of gynomania

From gyno- + -mania.

Questions about gynomania

What does gynomania mean?
Gynomania means synonym of transvestism.
How do you use gynomania in a sentence?
In sensual love (cytheromania, gynomania, andromania, satyriasis, nymphomania) one can find the same phenomenon of psychological synecdoche.
What part of speech is gynomania?
Gynomania is a noun.

Words near gynomania in the dictionary

  1. gynoidal
  2. gynoids
  3. gynolatric
  4. gynolatrous
  5. gynolatry
  6. gynomania
  7. gynomonecious
  8. gynomonoecious
  9. gynomonoecism
  10. gynomonoecy
  11. gynomorph

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