Synonyms for androgynous

Grammar : Adj

Spell : an-droj-uh-nuh s

Phonetic Transcription : ænˈdrɒdʒ ə nəs

Définition of androgynous

Origin : 1620s, from Latin androgynus, from Greek androgynos "hermaphrodite, male and female in one; womanish man;" as an adjective (of baths) "common to men and women," from andros, genitive of aner "male" (see anthropo-) + gyne "woman" (see queen).

adj having male and female traits

Example sentences :

At times she was also regarded as androgynous, both male and female.
Extract from : « Assyria, Its Princes, Priests and People » by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

They were not merely hermaphroditic, nor androgynous, nor parthenogenetic.
Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith

Androgynous deities represent attempts to combine in a single person the two sides of the productive power of nature.
Extract from : « Introduction to the History of Religions » by Crawford Howell Toy

It does not appear that the cult of the Greek androgynous deities entered seriously into the religious life of the people.
Extract from : « Introduction to the History of Religions » by Crawford Howell Toy

Once before when he bore Sleipner with the giant horse Svadilfare, Loke had revealed his androgynous nature.
Extract from : « Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 » by Viktor Rydberg, Ph.D.

To this abnormal condition the learned have applied the adjectives epicene, androgynous, hermaphrodite, arrenothele.
Extract from : « The Religious Sentiment » by Daniel G. Brinton

It is said to be androgynous or hermaphrodite—hence its peculiarly sacred character.
Extract from : « The God-Idea of the Ancients » by Eliza Burt Gamble

Here devout worshippers believe that the androgynous God of fertility, or Nature, still manifests itself to the faithful.
Extract from : « The God-Idea of the Ancients » by Eliza Burt Gamble

After these, the androgynous being, called the Venus of Arles, is scarcely worthy of being mentioned.
Extract from : « Beauty » by Alexander Walker

Several instances are given of androgynous infants (§ 22, 32 and 36).
Extract from : « Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance » by Morris Jastrow

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