androgyne

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/ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/

noun

A person who is androgynous.

RareFirst used mid-16th c.Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounandrogyne (plural androgynes)

plural androgynes

  1. 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 33
    2 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-Five

    There 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

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

  1. Latinandrogynus
  2. Frenchandrogyne
  3. Englishandrogyne

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

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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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“androgyne.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/androgyne. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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