English Dictionary

eonism

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈi.əˌnɪzəm/

名詞

不可算名詞

(sexology) The pretence of being the opposite sex, especially that by a man of being a woman; transvestism.

日本語の意味

（性学用語）男性が女性のふりをする、すなわち女装（トランスヴェスタイズム）の行為を指す。

His private journals revealed that he had practiced eonism for many years, dressing and behaving as a woman in secret.

彼の私的な日記には、長年にわたって異性装（特に男性が女性を装うこと）を行い、密かに女性の服装や振る舞いをしていたことが記されていた。

意味（1）

(sexology) The pretence of being the opposite sex, especially that by a man of being a woman; transvestism.

The chief of these intermediate sexual anomalies are: (1) physical hermaphroditism in its various stages; (2) gynandromorphism, or eunuchoidism, in which men possess characters resembling those of males who have been early castrated and women possess similarly masculine characters; (3) sexo-esthetic inversion, or Eonism (Hirschfeld's transvestism or cross-dressing), in which, outside the specifically sexual emotions, men possess the tastes of women and women those of men.