inversionist

noun

Etymology

From inversion + -ist.

  1. derived from inversio
  2. suffixed as inversionist — “inversion + ist

Definitions

  1. One who inverts something.

    • But first let us note that the theme of inversion, which is central in Runeberg's poem, is a typical Romantic feature. The Romantics were great inversionists. They inverted any number of dualistic antithetical opposites […]
  2. A proponent of the sexual inversion theory of homosexuality.

    • As Freud elaborates his idea of an Oedipus complex and adapts to it his experiences of homosexuality, the congenital claims of Havelock Ellis and the inversionists are largely replaced by a developmental model.

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