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heteronormal

heteronormal adjective: conforming to heteronormativity; accepting or promoting traditional views on gender and heterosexuality.

Adjective

heteronormal (comparative more heteronormal, superlative most heteronormal)

  1. Conforming to heteronormativity; accepting or promoting traditional views on gender and heterosexuality.
    • Yet letting go of the need to keep my heteronormal self alive, I have come to more fully embrace and gain sustenance from my "real" family who have been there all along.2001, Mary Bernstein, Renate Reimann, Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State, page 33
    • Spiegel quite evidently did not fear that Williams's material was too extreme for an industry and public that only three years before had been scandalized by the merest suggestion of unconventional (though heteronormal) sex in Baby Doll.2009, R. Barton Palmer, William Robert Bray, Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America

Forms of heteronormal

comparativemore heteronormal
superlativemost heteronormal

Origin of heteronormal

From hetero- + normal.

Questions about heteronormal

What does heteronormal mean?
Heteronormal means conforming to heteronormativity; accepting or promoting traditional views on gender and heterosexuality.
What part of speech is heteronormal?
Heteronormal is an adjective.

Words near heteronormal in the dictionary

  1. heteroneurans
  2. heteronomies
  3. heteronomous
  4. heteronomously
  5. heteronomy
  6. heteronormal
  7. heteronormality
  8. heteronormalization
  9. heteronormalize
  10. heteronormalized
  11. heteronormalizes

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