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cisfemininity

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The quality of being cisfeminine.

uncountable

Examples

“However, the act of critiquing cisnormativity inevitably presents the critic with a limited set⟳ of alternatives: one could argue⟳ that transmasculinity is as normal and regular as cismasculinity, cisfemininity, or transfemininity; […]”
“But we do need⟳ to talk⟳ about ourselves: practicing "black trans-cis-terhood"— to use⟳ black transfeminist theorist Dora Santana's felicitous phrase—means understanding black queer cisfemininity on its own⟳ terms.”
“Shikyūkei and chitsukei epitomise these traits of new spiritual culture by locating the part of the body most intimately associated with cisfemininity, a woman's sexual and reproductive organs, as the cause and remedy for the events of her life.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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