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Androgynous vs Androgynously - What's the difference?

androgynous | androgynously |

As an adjective androgynous

is possessing the sex organs of both sexes.

As an adverb androgynously is

in an androgynous manner.

androgynous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Possessing the sex organs of both sexes.
  • Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.
  • Names like Pat, Terry and Jean are androgynous because they can be given to babies of either gender.
  • Possessing qualities of both sexes.
  • * Owen
  • The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous .

    See also

    * genderqueer * gender bender * hermaphroditic * intersex * shehe

    androgynously

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an androgynous manner.
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , date = 1842-04-01 , title = Correspondence: Ad similitudinem dei , author = H. , magazine = The British Magazine , volume = 21 , page = 389 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=Wd1PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA389&dq=androgynously , passage = I conceive that holy writ has twice intended to represent man as originally framed in God's image and likeness, for that reason, or in that respect, which is both times immediately subjoined — viz., that he was a being androgynously masculine , and uniting in himself the virtues and natures of both sexes. }}
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  • , year = 1985 , title = Marriage and Family: Individuals and Life Cycles , author = Hamilton I. McCubbin, Barbara B. Dahl , location = New York , publisher = Wiley , isbn = 9780471098287 , ol = 2849578M , page = 45 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WoiFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA45&dq=androgynously , passage = Androgynously oriented males can express their feelings well and are more nurturant than traditionally masculine men. }}
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  • , year = 1992 , year_published = 1994 , title = Fashion, Culture, and Identity , first = Fred , last = Davis , publisher = University of Chicago Press , isbn = 9780226138091 , ol = 22485106M , page = 35 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=p-KvoXTYtVoC&pg=PA35&dq=androgynously , passage = Over the past century and a half, though more overtly in the period since the First World War, androgynously toned fashions have from time to time held sway, having reached their zenith in the unisex stylings popular from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s (Gottdiener 1977). }}
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  • , date = 1997-07-15 , chapter = Pronouns, Politics, and Femme Practice: An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt , title = Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls , editor = Laura Harris, Elizabeth Crocker , location = New York; London , publisher = Routledge , isbn = 9780415918749 , ol = 7495834M , page = 192 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=yps2W3t8rj4C&pg=PA192&dq=androgynously , passage = When you dressed androgynously , did others still perceive you as a femme? }}