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cisheterosexual en · ADJ

Etymology

From cis- + heterosexual.

Meanings

  1. Cisgender and heterosexual.
    • In such an India, two things are of utmost priority: land and an heir (preferably a cisheterosexual, masculine male) to inherit it. 2020, Arunima Ray, “Thinking The Body, Figuring (The) Woman: Religion, caste, gender, and identity in literary representations”, in Goutam Karmakar, Nasima Islam, Sk Sagir Ali, editors, Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism, unnumbered page:
    • A jock might be queer, but his performance of masculinity fits so comfortably within the cisheterosexual norms that he is assumed to be straight. 2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 162:
    • This is sadly common; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth experience trauma at higher rates than their cisheterosexual peers. 2020, Charlie McNabb, Queer Adolescence: Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Youth, page 43:

Forms

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more cisheterosexual Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most cisheterosexual Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

cishetero · cishet

Translations (2)

es cisheterosexual (Translations) · pl cisheteroseksualny (Translations)