noun
eonism
Eonism (noun) means dressing or behaving as a member of the opposite sex, especially a man presenting as a woman.
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Dressing or behaving as a member of the opposite sex, especially a man presenting as a woman.
"Ellis seems, however, to regard this 'less common but more complete' type as embodying the essence of eonism, and he objected to the term transvestism because it focused attention solely on the element of cross-dressing."
— Richard Ekins, Dave King (2006)
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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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"eonism" (noun) means dressing or behaving as a member of the opposite sex, especially a man presenting as a woman.
