gynemimetic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In most large cities of the West there exists an unnamed gynemimetic community that corresponds to the social institution of hijras in India and xanith in Oman."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”) + μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”); equivalent to gyne- + mimetic. Literally “female mimic”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.