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heteronormalized

heteronormalized is the simple past and past participle of heteronormalize.

Meaning of heteronormalize

Verb

heteronormalize (third-person singular simple present heteronormalizes, present participle heteronormalizing, simple past and past participle heteronormalized)

  1. (transitive) To alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative.
    • As dismayed as I am with Jenks’s editing, it is not, of course, fair to say that he completely heteronormalized Hemingway’s text[.]1999, Debra Moddelmog, Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 88

Questions about heteronormalized

What is heteronormalized the simple past and past participle of?
Heteronormalized is the simple past and past participle of heteronormalize.

Words near heteronormalized in the dictionary

  1. heteronomy
  2. heteronormal
  3. heteronormality
  4. heteronormalization
  5. heteronormalize
  6. heteronormalized
  7. heteronormalizes
  8. heteronormalizing
  9. heteronormative
  10. heteronormatively
  11. heteronormativism

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