eonism

n. [心]异性装粉癖

发音

/ˈi.əˌnɪzəm/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The pretence of being the opposite sex, especially that by a man of being a woman; transvestism.

    不可数

    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.

词源

Coined in 1920 by the British physician and sexologist Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) after Chevalier d'Eon (1728–1810), a French diplomat, spy and soldier who presented as male for 49 years, then as a female for 33. Ellis had previously used the term sexo-aesthetic inversion.

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