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heteronormalizes

heteronormalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 heteronormalizes

What is heteronormalizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Heteronormalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of heteronormalize.

Words near heteronormalizes in the dictionary

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

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