intersex

Meanings

Adjective

• Having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.

Noun

• The or a condition of being intersex; intersexuality.
• An individual with any of these conditions.

Verb

• To make intersex.

Related

Similar words

• intersexed
• intersexual
• hermaphroditic, hermaphrodite
• pseudohermaphroditic, pseudohermaphrodite
• indeterminate, X

Origin

• From German Intersexe; corresponding to inter- + sex.