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

"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."

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

Debierre, however, mentions some cases of true hermaphrodism.

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

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

In man and other vertebrates, hermaphrodism is always abnormal.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste