What does to be 'androgynous' mean?

Answer 1

David Bowie.

Answer 2

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An androgyne is a person who does not fit cleanly into the typical masculine and feminine gender roles of their society. Many androgynes identify as being mentally "between" male and female, or as entirely genderless. The former may also use the term bigender or ambigender, the latter non-gendered or agender. They may experience mental swings between genders.

Androgyny can be either physical or psychological; it does not depend on birth sex. A person who identifies as an androgyne may have been born intersexed, or may have typical sexual organs, either male or female.

Occasionally, people who do not actually define themselves as androgynes adapt their physical appearance to look androgynous. This outward androgyny has been used as a fashion statement, and some of the milder forms of it (women wearing men's pants, for example) are not perceived as transgendered behavior.

Androgyne used to be primarily used as a synonym for hermaphrodite (a term since replaced by the word intersex), but this usage has fallen out of favor.

Various alchemical, magical and metaphysical traditions had an allegorical figured named variously the Alchemical Androgyne [1] and the Divine Androgyne. All these concepts are derived from the sense of unity that a combination of femininity and masculinity in one being implies.

A recently-coined word, often used to refer to androgynes, is genderqueer. However, this term can be used to refer to anyone who identifies as transgender, or even someone who identifies as cisgender but whose behavior falls outside the stereotyped masculine/feminine gender binary. An androgyne may be attracted to people of any gender, though many identify as pansexual or asexual. Use of terms such as bisexual, heterosexual, and homosexual are irrelevant for someone who is not male or female to begin with. Infrequently the words gynephilia and androphilia are used, which refer to the gender of the person someone is attracted to, and do not imply any particular gender on the part of the person who is feeling the attraction.

Androgynes sometimes refer to themselves using gender-neutral pronouns or the singular they, and use a nongendered title such as Mx instead of Mr., Ms. or Mrs. Many take steps toward transitioning from their birth gender into a physically androgynous form. Most cultures only recognize the male and female, however, and it is generally impossible for an androgyne to have their gender legally recognized.

Answer 3

Neither masculine or feminine in shape. A frequent example of an androgynous being is a robot or stereotypical alien.

Answer 4

it means having both female and male characteristics. Someone or something that is not distinguishably male or female.

Some animals are naturally androgynous. People can also be androgynous.

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having characteristics of both male and female. Remember the SNL character "pat"? some say that country singer k.d. lang looks androgynous as well. It's a person that looks so close to both sexes that you're not exactly sure, which sex they are.

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Asexual

kind of looking neither male nor female.

Annie Lennox was famous for her androgynous look.

Answer 7

Androgyny refers to two concepts. The first is the mixing of masculine and feminine characteristics, be it the example of the loud fashion statements of musicians like David Bowie. The second is in describing something that is neither masculine nor feminine, for example the Hijras of India who are often described as "neither man nor woman".

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To have physical qualities of both genders. Models such as Twiggy who are waif-like and boyish with slim hips and small breasts are often said to be androgynous as they are female but also physically look like young males

Answer 9

Androgynous:
Biology. Having both female and male characteristics; hermaphroditic.
Being neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine, as in dress, appearance, or behavior.

Answer 10

an·drog·y·nous (n-drj-ns)
adj.
1. Biology Having both female and male characteristics; hermaphroditic.
2. Being neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine, as in dress, appearance, or behavior

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