hermaphrodism

American  

[her-maf-ruh-diz-uhm] / hərˈmæf rəˌdɪz əm /

noun

1. hermaphroditism.

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Example Sentences

To our shame, even nonbelievers such as Gore Vidal and Michel Foucault understood this.Foucault once said, “We are creating a hermaphrodism — a false species.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 11, 2023

Although hermaphrodism on a large scale, as an existing condition, was a matter of serious belief at the end of the eighteenth century, it has occupied no little attention in this.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles

As hermaphrodism was probably the original arrangement in all the Vertebrates, and the division of the sexes only followed by later differentiation of this, these curious cases offer no theoretical difficulty.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Is there not a seeming reference to this thought of divine hermaphrodism in the well-known passage of Genesis?

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

In connection with hermaphrodism it has been shown that the males who have been supposed to be so malformed were really, in most instances, but cases of hypospadias.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles