gynandry

Or gy·nan·drism

[ji-nan-dree, gahy-, jahy-]

noun

1. the condition of having intersex characteristics.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gynandry¹

< Greek gýnandr ( os ) ( gynandrous ) + -y ³

Example Sentences

The congenital viragint will always remain somewhat masculine in her tastes and ideas, but her inclinations and desires having been turned toward femininity early in life, she will escape the horrors of complete viraginity or gynandry.

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Her environments, however, had been those of a male instead of a female, consequently her psychical weakness, occasioned by degeneration inherited from an eccentric father, turned her into the gulf of viraginity, from which she at last emerged, a victim of complete gynandry.

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As it is probable that this form of viraginity is sometimes acquired to a certain extent, and that, too, very quickly, when a woman is placed among the proper surroundings, I shall give the case of Sarolta, Countess V., one of the most remarkable instances of gynandry on record.

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