heteroflexibility

noun

The state of being heteroflexible.

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Meanings

nounheteroflexibility (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state of being heteroflexible.

    Essig divides society into the categories of heteroflexibility and heterorigidity and homoflexibility and homorigidity.

    2002, Robert Goss, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up, Pilgrim Press, →ISBN, page 232
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    The L Word banks on heteroflexibility as well as queer equivocation, through its cultivation of the touristic gaze, a gaze which immersed, identifies with, and distanced, desires.

    2007, Candace Moore, “Getting Wet: The Heteroflexibility of Showtime's The L Word”, in Merri Lisa Johnson, editor, Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a Box, I. B. Tauris & Co., →ISBN, page 142

    It was unclear if the blatant display of her body was meant as a sexual advance or some other expression of heteroflexibility or homosociality.

    2013, Heidi Hoefinger, Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia: Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships, Routledge, →ISBN

Origin

From hetero- + flexibility.

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Translations

Spanish heteroflexibilidad
  • heteroflexibilidadorientational state
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APA

heteroflexibility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heteroflexibility

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

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heteroflexibility,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heteroflexibility.

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