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transvestic

transvestic adjective: relating to transvestism.

Adjective

transvestic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to transvestism.
    • Transvestic fetishism varies from the occasional wearing of a few articles of clothing of the opposite sex to complete cross-dressing.1996, Michael G. Gelder, Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, page 499
    • He occupies himself professionally with women's clothes as an outlet for his suppressed transvestic desires.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 78

Origin of transvestic

From transvest(ite) + -ic.

Words formed from transvestic

Phrases with transvestic

Questions about transvestic

What does transvestic mean?
Transvestic means relating to transvestism.
What part of speech is transvestic?
Transvestic is an adjective.

Words near transvestic in the dictionary

  1. transverts
  2. transvesical
  3. transvesicular
  4. transvest
  5. transvested
  6. transvestic
  7. transvestic disorder
  8. transvestic fetishism
  9. transvestic fetishisms
  10. transvesticide
  11. transvesticides

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