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transvestic

adj

Etymology

From transvest(ite) + -ic.

  1. borrowed from Transvestitismus
  2. borrowed from trāns
  3. formed as transvestic — “transvestite + -ic”

Definitions

  1. Relating to transvestism.

    • Transvestic fetishism varies from the occasional wearing of a few articles of clothing of the opposite sex to complete cross-dressing.
    • He occupies himself professionally with women's clothes as an outlet for his suppressed transvestic desires.
    • Eighty-two percent (n = 23) of the paraphilic group declared fetishistic interests, 79% reported sadomasochistic interests, and 50% were transvestic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for transvestic. 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