Meanings
plural androgynes
- A person who is androgynous.First known use mid-16th c.
The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 332 more examples
Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.
1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-FiveThere are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.
2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019 - An androgynous plant.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounone having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinandrogynus
- Frenchandrogyne
- Englishandrogyne
From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan androgin
- androgina person who is androgynous
Chinese Mandarin 中性人, 雙性人 /双性人
- 中性人 (zhōngxìngrén)a person who is androgynous
- 雙性人 /双性人 (shuāngxìngrén)a person who is androgynous
Danish androgyn
- androgyna person who is androgynous
Esperanto androgino
- androginoa person who is androgynous
Estonian androgüün
- androgüüna person who is androgynous
Finnish androgyyni
- androgyynia person who is androgynous
French androgyne, androgyne
- androgynea person who is androgynous
- androgyneandrogynous plant
Greek ανδρόγυνος
- ανδρόγυνος (andrógynos)a person who is androgynous
Hebrew אַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס
- אַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס (androgínos)a person who is androgynous
Italian androgino
- androginoa person who is androgynous
Polish androgyne
- androgynea person who is androgynous
Portuguese andrógino
- andróginoa person who is androgynous
Romanian androgin, androgin
- androgina person who is androgynous
- androginandrogynous plant
Russian андроги́н, гермафроди́т
- андроги́н (androgín)a person who is androgynous
- гермафроди́т (germafrodít)a person who is androgynous
- андроги́н (androgín)androgynous plant
- обоепо́лое расте́ние (obojepóloje rasténije)androgynous plant
Spanish andrógino
- andróginoa person who is androgynous
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Cite this entry
androgyne. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/androgyne
“androgyne.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/androgyne. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “androgyne,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/androgyne.
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