androgynity

English

Etymology

From androgyn(ous) +‎ -ity.

Noun

androgynity (uncountable)

  1. The state of being androgynous; androgynous nature.
    Synonym: androgynousness
    • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 31:
      The tortoise, possessing, like the serpent, the power of retaining life in its limbs after mutilation or decapitation, became a symbol of androgynity as well as of immortality.
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