cismasculinity

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noun

The state or quality of being cismasculine.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nouncismasculinity (countable and uncountable, plural cismasculinities)

plural cismasculinities

  1. countableuncountableThe state or quality of being cismasculine.

    In addition, drag performance is not limited to expressions of cismasculinity or cisfemininity.

    2021, Meredith Heller, “Drag Performativity”, in Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn, editors, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, unnumbered page
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    For 70 respondents (40 per cent), transmasculinity is unequivocally and qualitatively different from cismasculinity.

    2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page

    […] what the production of a new, 'more disruptive' gender identity does is obscure the fact that cismasculinity and cisfemininity are themselves precarious, fluid and complicated.

    2018, Rob Cover, Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era, unnumbered page

Origin

Translations

French cis-masculinité
  • cis-masculinitéTranslations
Polish cismęskość
  • cismęskośćTranslations
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APA

cismasculinity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cismasculinity

MLA

“cismasculinity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cismasculinity. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cismasculinity,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cismasculinity.

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