transvestite

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

transvestites

1.
(dated)A person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the opposite sex; typically a male who cross-dresses occasionally by habit or personal choice.
Even though Steven used to dress up in his sister's clothes, it still came as a surprise he ended up as a transvestite.
Đồng nghĩa: cross-dresser, TV, tranny, transy
2.
(clinical psychology, psychiatry, pathology) A person, typically a heterosexual male, who compulsively seeks and derives paraphilic sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
3.
(dated)(zoology, dated) An animal that engages in sexual mimicry.

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Đồng nghĩa

cross-dresserTVtrannytransy

Cùng gốc / liên quan

cisvestitetransvesticidetranswestitetransvestictransvestic fetishismtransvestism transvestitism travesty eonismeonist

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Nguồn gốc từ

Latin trāns + vestītus, form of vestiō (to clothe, to dress) (as in English vestment, vest). Literally, a "cross-dresser". From transvestitism, from German Transvestitismus, coined in 1910 by Magnus Hirschfeld (the practice itself is much older).