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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)

  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 heteronormalizing

What is heteronormalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Heteronormalizing is the present participle and gerund of heteronormalize.

Words near heteronormalizing in the dictionary

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

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