This week’s theme
A change of character: Act I

This week’s words
idiocracy
androgynous


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PRONUNCIATION:

(an-DROJ-uh-nuhs)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Having both masculine and feminine characteristics, or being neither distinctly masculine nor feminine.
2. Biology: Having both male and female sex characteristics.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin androgynus, from Greek androgynos, from andro- (man) + -gune (woman). Earliest documented use: 1628.

USAGE:

“Lea DeLaria turned Nick Bottom into an androgynous cross between Lou Costello and Ella Fitzgerald.”
High Points of ’06; Daily Record (Parsippany, New Jersey); Dec 31, 2006.

See more usage examples of androgynous in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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