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heteroflexibility en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From hetero- + flexibility.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The 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:
    • 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:

Translations (1)

es heteroflexibilidad (orientational state)