transness
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Italic *genos Latin genus Old French gendrebor. Middle English gendre English gender English transgenderclip. ▲ English trans- Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder. Proto-Italic *seksus Latin sexus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin sexuālisbor. English sexual English transsexualclip. English trans English -ness English transness From trans + -ness.
- derived from *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin sexuālisbor✻
- derived from *seksus Latin sexus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der✻
- derived from *séks-u-sder✻
- derived from trans- Proto-Indo-European *sek-der
Definitions
The condition or quality of being transgender or transsexual.
- Green recognized that there are “little beehives of transness” in a few major US cities and abroad and F2M individuals who take upon themselves the role of educator and activist
- Clearly, these were folks who chose to view my transness as an “affliction” (despite the fact that I did not portray it that way myself).
- Now though, I've been thinking more about the idea that one can be attracted to transgender men (or women) in part because of their transness, not (as mainstream culture seems to think) in spite of it.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for transness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA