transvestism
IPA: trænzvˈɛstɪzʌm
noun
- The condition of being a transvestite.
- (clinical psychology, psychiatry, pathology) A paraphilia typically found in heterosexual males characterized by compulsively seeking and deriving sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
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Examples of "transvestism" in Sentences
- The clinical syndrome of femmiphilic transvestism.
- Transvestism was declassified as an illness in 2008.
- Transvestism and hanging episodes in a male adolescent.
- The discrete syndromes of transvestism and transsexualism.
- Zapotecs are also tolerant of bisexuality and transvestism.
- This group was not particularly happy with the term transvestism.