Meanings
- obsoleteSynonym of transvestism.
In place of phallocentrism, the narratives preoccupy us with the gynomania of brown Sello's Medusa.
1991 Autumn, Linda Susan Beard, “Bessie Head's Syncretic Fictions: The Reconceptualization of Power and the Recovery of the Ordinary”, in Modern Fiction Studies, volume 37, number 35 more examples
The case of gynomania above cited has never before been published, but we can vouch for its truth: and we fear that it is not an isolated case.
1877, Scientific American - Volume 36; Volume 36, page 41Sometimes the disease takes the form of sexual excitement being produced in a man by wearing articles of female attire. This has been called "gynomania."
1881, Gaillard's Medical Journal - Volume 31, page 368In sensual love (cytheromania, gynomania, andromania, satyriasis, nymphomania) one can find the same phenomenon of psychological synecdoche.
1899, Charles Féré, The Pathology of emotions, page 393Baron de Flach, a retired Viennese financier, had contrived to insinuate himself into that land of armorial bearings by purchasing the house of the descendant of a Crusader, ruined by gambling and gynomania.
1900, Frederic Carrel, The Realization of Justin Moran, page 35The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait.
1919, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel: From the Beginning to the Close of the 19th CenturySynonyms: transvestism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of transvestism.
Origin
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