heteronormalizing
heteronormalizing is the present participle and gerund of heteronormalize.
Meaning of heteronormalize
Verb
heteronormalize (third-person singular simple present heteronormalizes, present participle heteronormalizing, simple past and past participle heteronormalized)
- 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 heteronormalizing
- What is heteronormalizing the present participle and gerund of?
- Heteronormalizing is the present participle and gerund of heteronormalize.
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