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heteroflexibility

heteroflexibility noun: the state of being heteroflexible.

Noun

heteroflexibility (uncountable)

  1. The state of being heteroflexible.
    • Essig divides society into the categories of heteroflexibility and heterorigidity and homoflexibility and homorigidity.2002, Robert Goss, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up, Pilgrim Press, →ISBN, page 232
    • The L Word banks on heteroflexibility as well as queer equivocation, through its cultivation of the touristic gaze, a gaze which immersed, identifies with, and distanced, desires.2007, Candace Moore, “Getting Wet: The Heteroflexibility of Showtime's The L Word”, in Merri Lisa Johnson, editor, Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a Box, I. B. Tauris & Co....

Origin of heteroflexibility

From hetero- + flexibility.

Questions about heteroflexibility

What does heteroflexibility mean?
Heteroflexibility means the state of being heteroflexible.
What part of speech is heteroflexibility?
Heteroflexibility is a noun.

Words near heteroflexibility in the dictionary

  1. heterofibrils
  2. heterofibrin
  3. heterofibrins
  4. heterofilament
  5. heterofilaments
  6. heteroflexibility
  7. heteroflexible
  8. heteroflexibles
  9. heterofriendly
  10. heterofucan
  11. heterofucans

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