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Sexual inversion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Homosexuality, as regarded by a theory of the late 19th and early 20th century that saw it as an inborn reversal of gender traits. dated, uncountable

    "Congenital sexual inversion—that is to say, sexual instinct turned by inborn constitutional abnormality toward persons of the same sex—is a comparatively rare phenomenon, so far as our knowledge at present extends."

  2. 2
    a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex wordnet

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