eonism
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Noun — Dressing or behaving as a member of the opposite sex, especially a man presenting as a woman.
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Etymology
Coined in 1920 by the British physician and sexologist Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) after Chevalier d'Eon (1728–1810), a French diplomat, spy and soldier who presented as male for 49 years, then as a female for 33. Ellis had previously used the term sexo-aesthetic inversion.
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