What's the difference between androgyny and hermaphrodism?

Androgyny


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Androgynism

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Androgyny had a significant main effect on spatial ability, the more androgynous subjects being superior.
  • (2) Likewise, androgyny scores did not distinguish individuals in traditional careers from those in non-traditional careers.
  • (3) As in previous studies, men in this study scored higher than women on masculinity and androgyny and lower on femininity.
  • (4) There were significant correlations between age and both androgyny and n Ach scores, but no significant correlation between androgyny and n Ach scores.
  • (5) Data from a survey of 58 gay men and 58 lesbians are compared to college men and women on Spence and Helmreich's (1978) Personality Attributes Questionnaire measures of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny.
  • (6) Both groups showed a similar response pattern on the Embedded Figures Test but differed on the Draw-A-Person Test, The Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey, and the Bem Androgyny Scale.
  • (7) Occupation was found not to be a significant variable in explaining variance among the four groups on their masculinity, femininity, and androgyny scores.
  • (8) This study assessed possible influences of handedness, sex, familial sinistrality (FS), and self-rated androgyny on language laterality and on spatial and verbal test performances of 225 right-handers and 134 left-handers.
  • (9) There was a significant difference in psychological androgyny when comparing students by degree program.
  • (10) Each of the several M-F measures was related significantly to sexual orientation in the combined-sex group, and the combination of the MMPI Mf scale and the Bem Androgyny Score accounted for a small but significantly greater portion of the variance in self-rated sexual orientation than did the MMPI Mf scale alone.
  • (11) The study involved 338 students enrolled in all six allied health professions programs at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, who completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), a measure of psychological androgyny.
  • (12) With its teen address, deep androgyny and dancehall imperative, the song was very much in line with previous Bowie hits such as "John, I'm Only Dancing" and "The Jean Genie".
  • (13) Sex-role identity for both groups was near the adolescent girl norms for both Femininity and Masculinity, with virilized CAH girls showing slightly higher Androgyny scores.
  • (14) Androgyny measures differed only by gender, not by sexual orientation.
  • (15) Teased at school for her “skinny frame”, her angular androgyny is well received in the modelling world, and she appears on the covers of Vogue and Stern .
  • (16) These results indicate that the BSRI Androgyny score reflects a bipolar dimension.
  • (17) Related to the issue of sexism is the concept of psychological androgyny, or the lack of tendency toward masculine or feminine traits.
  • (18) Results indicated that students in all dental hygiene programs are most frequently sex-typed as feminine, with androgyny as the second most frequently sex-typed characteristic.
  • (19) Five hypothetical outcomes in androgyny research and an example involving actual data are presented.
  • (20) Androgyny scores (3 x biacromial breadth - bicristal breadth) were calculated for 66 female track and field five event categories and 76 female non-athletes.

Hermaphrodism


Definition:

  • (n.) See Hermaphroditism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Rokitansky-Küster syndrome was found in 16 women, and pseudomale hermaphrodism in two.
  • (2) The in vitro biosynthesis of estrogens and androgens by gonadal tissues of the ovotestes was studied in three siblings with familial true hermaphrodism and correlated with daily steroid and gonadotropin plasma levels.
  • (3) TDFA shows somewhat variable expression in XX individuals often causing genital ambiguity or true hermaphrodism.
  • (4) Associated anomalies were ano-rectal malformations (1 case), male hermaphrodism (1 case), lipoma and tethered cord in 3 patients, myelocystocele in 1 case.
  • (5) Four cases of male pseudo-hermaphrodism were seen post pubertal.
  • (6) Less common than pseudohermaphrodism is true hermaphrodism, wherein both testicular and ovarian tissue is present in various combinations.