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heterogender

heterogender adjective: involving people with different genders.

Adjective

heterogender (not comparable)

  1. Involving people with different genders.
    • Same-sex heterogender relationships are more openly acknowledged in Bugis society than same-sex homogender relationships.2007, Sharyn Graham Davies, Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among Bugis in Indonesia, Thomson Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 26
    • It was in the subtle sociolinguistic cues and gestures associated with Labrang Tibetan femininity I gradually took on in encounters, such as the way I came to talk and think about my "husband"–feeling extremely uncomfortable with public displays of heterogender affection, yet learning to...2007, Charlene E. Makley, The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 19

Antonyms of heterogender

Origin of heterogender

From hetero- + gender.

Questions about heterogender

What does heterogender mean?
Heterogender means involving people with different genders.
What part of speech is heterogender?
Heterogender is an adjective.

Words near heterogender in the dictionary

  1. heterogamic
  2. heterogamies
  3. heterogamous
  4. heterogamy
  5. heterogangliate
  6. heterogender
  7. heterogenderal
  8. heterogene
  9. heterogeneal
  10. heterogenecity
  11. heterogeneic

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