glossary
   
androgyny 


Androgyny, a term that combines the Greek words for man and woman, is a state of ambiguous gender in which identifying sexual characteristics are uncertain or mixed. It differs from hermaphoditism, or intersexuality, a condition in which dual sexual characteristics are unambiguously present. To say that someone is andryogynous is to say that he or she combines stereotypically male and female attributes.
 

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