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transvestic en · ADJ

Etymology

From transvest(ite) + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to transvestism.
    • Eighty-two percent (n = 23) of the paraphilic group declared fetishistic interests, 79% reported sadomasochistic interests, and 50% were transvestic. 2012, D. Richard Laws, William T. O'Donohue, Sexual Deviance, Second Edition: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment:
    • Transvestic fetishism varies from the occasional wearing of a few articles of clothing of the opposite sex to complete cross-dressing. 1996, Michael G. Gelder, Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, page 499:
    • He occupies himself professionally with women's clothes as an outlet for his suppressed transvestic desires. 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 78:

Deriveds

transvesticism · transvestic fetishism

Translations (1)

pl transwestytyczny (relating to transvestism)