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androgyne

[ an-druh-jahyn ]

noun

  1. an androgynous person, such as one whose appearance is neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine.
  2. a person whose gender identity is linked to androgyny, such as by being a blend of male and female or by being neither male nor female.
    1. Older Use: Often Offensive. a person having reproductive characteristics of both sexes.
    2. a mythical early form of human in which the sexes had not been divided into two separate categories, and instead each person was both male and female at the same time.
  3. Botany. a plant having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.


androgyne

/ ˈæԻəˌɪ /

noun

  1. another word for hermaphrodite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of androgyne1

First recorded in 1545–55; from Middle French, from Latin androgynus, from Greek ԻóԴDz “hermaphrodite,” equivalent to andro- + gyn- + -os, masculine noun suffix
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of androgyne1

C17: from Old French, via Latin from Greek androgunos, from ŧ man + ܲŧ woman
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On platinum albums including “Antichrist Superstar” and “Mechanical Animals,” Manson cultivated a character — part Alice Cooper, part androgyne glam monster — that antagonized the religious right and enraptured teenagers.

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In "The Garden of Eden," David Bourne often refers to Catherine — Hemingway's androgyne avatar — as "Devil."

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Younger designers seemed keen on re-clothing notions of women and men, with fluorescent expressions of gender fluidity and slinky knitwear for digital androgynes.

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Rather than sounding like a boy, Cher’s voice in the 1960s suggests a coming era of the androgyne, with a whiff of all that multicultural, multiethnic and thrillingly exotic territory beyond race and gender.

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Perhaps Cahun’s most famous work is an extensive series of photographed self-portraits as various identities, morphing from androgyne to Pierrot to angel with wings to bodybuilder.

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