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intersexing

intersexing is the present participle and gerund of intersex.

Meaning of intersex

Verb

intersex (third-person singular simple present intersexes, present participle intersexing, simple past and past participle intersexed)

  1. (nonstandard) To make intersex.
    • The point is significant in light of current political issues surrounding real intersexed individuals. [...] It is clearly the case that physical intersexing and psychological androgyny do not conform to sex and gender norms in society. [...]2013, Patrick Colm Hogan, Ulysses and the Poetics of Cognition, →ISBN, page 176
    Synonyms:
    intersexualize

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Questions about intersexing

What is intersexing the present participle and gerund of?
Intersexing is the present participle and gerund of intersex.

Words near intersexing in the dictionary

  1. intersets
  2. intersetting
  3. intersex
  4. intersexed
  5. intersexes
  6. intersexing
  7. intersexism
  8. intersexness
  9. intersexphobia
  10. intersexphobic
  11. intersexual

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intersexing (page history and authors); intersex (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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