cishetero

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adjective

Cisgender and heterosexual.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivecishetero (comparative more cishetero, superlative most cishetero)

comparative more cishetero · superlative most cishetero

  1. informalCisgender and heterosexual.

    This framework does not impact only cishetero men and women.

    2020, Alex Iantaffi, Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma, page 112
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    There's also a lot of pressure to behave or conform to cishetero standards, but it's okay to be diverse, have differences in nuance.

    2019, “Alyia”, in Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney, editors, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum, page 119

    […] while men can and should worship the cishetero fantasy of Playboy in which what it means to be a Man is to be effortlessly orgasmic and heterosexually dominating.

    2021, Emily Anne Parker, Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body, page 64

    Synonyms: cishet, cisheterosexual

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveCisgender and heterosexual.

Origin

Translations

French cis-hétéro
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Polish cishetero
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Spanish cishetero
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Chicago

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