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

In man and other vertebrates, hermaphrodism is always abnormal.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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"Admit, at any rate, that this cerebral hermaphrodism, self-fecundation, is a distinguished vice at least—being the privilege of the artist—a vice reserved for the elect, inaccessible to the mob."

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

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