Meaning of gynomania | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of transvestism.

obsolete

Examples

“The case of gynomania above cited has never before been published, but we can vouch for its truth: and we fear that it is not an isolated case.”

“Sometimes the disease takes the form of sexual excitement being produced in a man by wearing articles of female attire. This has been called "gynomania."”

“In sensual love (cytheromania, gynomania, andromania, satyriasis, nymphomania) one can find the same phenomenon of psychological synecdoche.”

“Baron de Flach, a retired Viennese financier, had contrived to insinuate himself into that land of armorial bearings by purchasing the house of the descendant of a Crusader, ruined by gambling and gynomania.”

“The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait.”

“In place of phallocentrism, the narratives preoccupy us with the gynomania of brown Sello's Medusa.”

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