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heteronormatively

heteronormatively adverb: in a heteronormative manner or context.

Adverb

heteronormatively (comparative more heteronormatively, superlative most heteronormatively)

  1. In a heteronormative manner or context.
    • Mature adults are heteronormatively gendered. One of the key things a child must grow up into is a man or a woman, so to be a mature adult means to identify unambiguously as one or the other […]2009, Eric L. Tribunella, Melancholia and Maturation, page xxii

Forms of heteronormatively

comparativemore heteronormatively
superlativemost heteronormatively

Origin of heteronormatively

From heteronormative + -ly.

Questions about heteronormatively

What does heteronormatively mean?
Heteronormatively means in a heteronormative manner or context.
What part of speech is heteronormatively?
Heteronormatively is an adverb.

Words near heteronormatively in the dictionary

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

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