ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Heteronormal

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Heteronormal is an adjective meaning Conforming to heteronormativity; accepting or promoting traditional views on gender and heterosexuality.

Meaning

Conforming to heteronormativity; accepting or promoting traditional views on gender and heterosexuality.

Example Sentences

Yet letting go of the need to keep my heteronormal self alive, I have come to more fully embrace and gain sustenance from my "real" family who have been there all along.
Spiegel quite evidently did not fear that Williams's material was too extreme for an industry and public that only three years before had been scandalized by the merest suggestion of unconventional (though heteronormal) sex in Baby Doll.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cisheteronormative, mononormative, orthodox, postgay, amatonormative, antinormative.

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