eonism

== English == === Etymology === Coined in 1920 by the British physician and sexologist Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) after Chevalier d'Eon (1728–1810), a French diplomat, spy and soldier who presented as male for 49 years, then as a female for 33. Ellis had previously used the term sexo-aesthetic inversion. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈi.əˌnɪzəm/ === Noun === eonism (uncountable) (sexology) The pretence of being the opposite sex, especially that by a man of being a woman; transvestism. 2013, C. N. Armstrong, 12: Transvestism, D. Robertson Smith, William M. Davidson (editors), Symposium on Nuclear Sex, Elsevier (Butterworth-Heinemann), page 88, Homosexuals do not as a rule want to change their sex and identity. This is the fundamental anomaly in eonism. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === non-binary transgender === Further reading === Havelock Ellis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Sexology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Emison, Neoism, Siemon, Simeon, Simone, mesion, moesin, monies, semion