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Synonyms for androgynous

Grammar : Adj
Spell : an-droj-uh-nuh s
Phonetic Transcription : ænˈdrɒdʒ ə nəs

Définition of androgynous

Origin :
  • 1620s, from Latin androgynus, from Greek androgynos "hermaphrodite, male and female in one; womanish man;" as an adjective (of baths) "common to men and women," from andros, genitive of aner "male" (see anthropo-) + gyne "woman" (see queen).
  • adj having male and female traits
Example sentences :
  • At times she was also regarded as androgynous, both male and female.
  • Extract from : « Assyria, Its Princes, Priests and People » by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
  • They were not merely hermaphroditic, nor androgynous, nor parthenogenetic.
  • Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • Androgynous deities represent attempts to combine in a single person the two sides of the productive power of nature.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the History of Religions » by Crawford Howell Toy
  • It does not appear that the cult of the Greek androgynous deities entered seriously into the religious life of the people.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the History of Religions » by Crawford Howell Toy
  • Once before when he bore Sleipner with the giant horse Svadilfare, Loke had revealed his androgynous nature.
  • Extract from : « Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 » by Viktor Rydberg, Ph.D.
  • To this abnormal condition the learned have applied the adjectives epicene, androgynous, hermaphrodite, arrenothele.
  • Extract from : « The Religious Sentiment » by Daniel G. Brinton
  • It is said to be androgynous or hermaphrodite—hence its peculiarly sacred character.
  • Extract from : « The God-Idea of the Ancients » by Eliza Burt Gamble
  • Here devout worshippers believe that the androgynous God of fertility, or Nature, still manifests itself to the faithful.
  • Extract from : « The God-Idea of the Ancients » by Eliza Burt Gamble
  • After these, the androgynous being, called the Venus of Arles, is scarcely worthy of being mentioned.
  • Extract from : « Beauty » by Alexander Walker
  • Several instances are given of androgynous infants (§ 22, 32 and 36).
  • Extract from : « Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance » by Morris Jastrow

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