Eonism

//ˈi.əˌnɪzəm//

Synonyms for "eonism"

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French

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  • éonisme noun (pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism)

German

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  • Eonismus noun (pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism)
  • Transgender noun (pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism)

Italian

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  • eonismo noun (pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism)

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The chief of these intermediate sexual anomalies are: (1) physical hermaphroditism in its various stages; (2) gynandromorphism, or eunuchoidism, in which men possess characters resembling those of males who have been early castrated and women possess similarly masculine characters; (3) sexo-esthetic inversion, or Eonism (Hirschfeld's transvestism or cross-dressing), in which, outside the specifically sexual emotions, men possess the tastes of women and women those of men.

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Ellis seems, however, to regard this 'less common but more complete' type as embodying the essence of eonism, and he objected to the term transvestism because it focused attention solely on the element of cross-dressing.

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2013, C. N. Armstrong, 12: Transvestism, D. Robertson Smith, William M. Davidson (editors), Symposium on Nuclear Sex, Elsevier (Butterworth-Heinemann), page 88, Homosexuals do not as a rule want to change their sex and identity. This is the fundamental anomaly in eonism.

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