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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
gender euphoria en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ juˈfɔɹi.ə/ (General-American)
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Meanings
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(uncountable) The profound feeling of joy and comfort that some transgender people and others feel when perceived as the gender they identify with.
Even though he wasn't out as trans to anyone yet, he felt a rush of gender euphoria when the waiter called him "sir."
I discovered that, although elusive and fleeting, gender euphoria did exist, and it was bursting out everywhere from inside me. In that bedroom, during that encounter, I didn’t want to be anyone else but me, for the first time in my life.
2024, Alana S. Portero, translated by Mara Faye Lethem, Bad Habit, 4th Estate, page 106:
Antonyms
gender dysphoria
Relateds
euphoria boner