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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