Androgyne

Quick meaning: Androgyne is a noun meaning A person who is androgynous.

Meaning

A person who is androgynous.

More Meanings

1. An androgynous plant.

Example Sentences

The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.

Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.

There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.

Word Forms

• androgynes

Synonyms for androgyne

Depending on context, synonyms include gynandromorph, hermaphrodite, epicine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hermaphrodite, gynandromorph, epicine, androgynist, andromimetic, androphile.

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