Intersex

//ˈɪn.tə.sɛks// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes. not-comparable

    "His confidentiality was broken, and soon the entire staff and residential population were aware that Jim was intersex. […] we faced the fact that most programs were gender segregated and would not be a safe place for Jim to be known as intersex."

  2. 2
    A person who can get pregnant and also impregnate someone else. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being intersex; intersexuality. uncountable

    "A Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin."

  2. 2
    one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made wordnet
  3. 3
    An individual with any of these conditions. countable

    "Goldschmidt and others who have thought of the homosexual individual as an intersex have relied upon incidence figures which were pure guesses and which, as the data in the present chapter will show, bear little relation to the fact...."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make intersex. nonstandard

    "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. [...]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From German Intersexe. Doublet of intersect. By surface analysis, inter- + sex.

Etymology 2

From German Intersexe. Doublet of intersect. By surface analysis, inter- + sex.

Etymology 3

From German Intersexe. Doublet of intersect. By surface analysis, inter- + sex.

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