hermaphroditism

English

Etymology

hermaphrodite +‎ -ism

Noun

hermaphroditism (countable and uncountable, plural hermaphroditisms)

1. The state of having sexual organs of both the male and female sexes.

Usage notes

intersexism is now the preferred term for the human description.

Synonyms

• hermaphrodism
• intersex (noun)
• intersexuality

Related terms

• hermaphrodite
• hermaphroditic
• hermaphroditical
• hermaphroditically
• pseudohermaphroditism

Translations

state of having both male and female sexual organs

• Catalan: hermafroditisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雌雄間性, 雌雄间性 (cíxióngjiānxìng), 雌雄同體 (zh)

• Danish: hermafroditisme c, hermafrodisme c, tvekønnethed c
• Dutch: hermafroditisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: dusekseco, hermafroditismo
• French: hermaphrodisme (fr) m
• German: Hermaphroditismus (de) m, Hermaphrodismus m, Zweigeschlechtlichkeit (de) f, Zwittrigkeit (de) f, Zwittertum (de) n
• Japanese: 雌雄同体 (しゆうどうたい, shiyūdōtai)
• Kazakh: қосжыныстылық (qosjynystylyq)
• Korean: 암수한몸 (ko) (amsuhanmom), 자웅동체 (ko) (jaungdongche)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hermafrodittisme m, tvekjønnethet m or f

  Nynorsk: hermafrodittisme m, tvikjønn n

• Portuguese: hermafroditismo m
• Russian: гермафродити́зм (ru) m (germafroditízm)
• Spanish: hermafroditismo (es) m
• Swedish: hermafroditism c, hermafrodism c
• Volapük: härmafrodit

See also

• intersex
• Wikipedia article on Hermaphrodite