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heteroimitative

heteroimitative adjective: mirroring heterosexual or heteronormative standards.

Adjective

heteroimitative (comparative more heteroimitative, superlative most heteroimitative)

  1. Mirroring heterosexual or heteronormative standards.
    • But when it comes to telling Third World communities ― just emerging into Liberational consciousness ― what they should or should not include on their agendas, here I think we should have to realize that our never-properly-examined hetero-imitative ethnocentric hangovers from our...1990 April 28, Harry Hay, “Identifying As Gay ― Here's The Key”, in Gay Community News, page 5

Forms of heteroimitative

comparativemore heteroimitative
superlativemost heteroimitative

Questions about heteroimitative

What does heteroimitative mean?
Heteroimitative means mirroring heterosexual or heteronormative standards.
What part of speech is heteroimitative?
Heteroimitative is an adjective.

Words near heteroimitative in the dictionary

  1. heterohexamers
  2. heterohybridoma
  3. heterohybridomas
  4. heteroicous
  5. heteroideous
  6. heteroimitative
  7. heteroimmune
  8. heteroimmunity
  9. heterointerface
  10. heterointerfaces
  11. heteroisotopic

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