androgynityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

androgynity (uncountable)

1. The state of being androgynous; androgynous nature.

   Synonym: androgynousness

   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 31:

     The tortoise, possessing, like the serpent, the power of retaining life in its limbs after mutilation or decapitation, became a symbol of androgynity as well as of immortality.