Eonismn.
/ˈiːəʊnɪz(ə)m/ Transvestism, esp. by a man.
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travestiment1832
cross-dressing1911
transvestitism1912
transvestism1913
Eonism1928
transvesticism1934
1928 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex VII. i. 10 It was clearly a typical case of what Hirschfeld later termed ‘transvestism’ and what I would call ‘sexo-aesthetic inversion’, or more simply, ‘Eonism’.
1970 Times 5 Sept. 8/4 Today we can see that the Chevalier was an a-sexual transvestite. From his name Havelock Ellis coined the term eonism to describe this minor deviation.
Derivatives
ˈEonist n. one who wears the clothes of the opposite sex.
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berdache1806
hijra1838
she-male1842
female impersonator1857
transvestite1911
Eonist1928
transvestist1928
transvestitist1930
drag queen1941
moffie1960
TV1960
shim1973
cross-dresser1976
tranny1979
1928 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex VII. i. 12 The Eonist (though sometimes emphatically of the apparent sex) sometimes shows real physical approximations towards the opposite sex.
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