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transmasculinity

transmasculinity noun: the quality of being transmasculine.

Noun

transmasculinity (countable and uncountable, plural transmasculinities)

  1. The quality of being transmasculine.
    • […] Transmasculinity is not a special—or single—type of masculinity. It is more aptly described as a context: masculinity as enacted by people with transgender identities.2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197
    • For 70 respondents (40 per cent), transmasculinity is unequivocally and qualitatively different from cismasculinity.2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page

Forms of transmasculinity

pluraltransmasculinities

Origin of transmasculinity

From trans- + masculinity.

Words formed from transmasculinity

Questions about transmasculinity

What does transmasculinity mean?
Transmasculinity means the quality of being transmasculine.
What part of speech is transmasculinity?
Transmasculinity is a noun.
What is the plural of transmasculinity?
The plural of transmasculinity is transmasculinities.

Words near transmasculinity in the dictionary

  1. transmasc
  2. transmascby
  3. transmascs
  4. transmasculine
  5. transmasculinities
  6. transmasculinity
  7. transmastoid
  8. transmastoidal
  9. transmat
  10. transmaternal
  11. transmats

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