cishetero
English
Etymology
Adjective
cishetero (comparative more cishetero, superlative most cishetero)
- (informal) Cisgender and heterosexual.
- 2019, “Alyia”, in Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney, editors, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum[1], page 119:
- There's also a lot of pressure to behave or conform to cishetero standards, but it's okay to be diverse, have differences in nuance.
- 2020, Alex Iantaffi, Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma[2], page 112:
- This framework does not impact only cishetero men and women.
- 2021, Emily Anne Parker, Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body[3], page 64:
- […] while men can and should worship the cishetero fantasy of Playboy in which what it means to be a Man is to be effortlessly orgasmic and heterosexually dominating.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cishetero.
Synonyms
- cishet (informal)
- cisheterosexual
Translations
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌθiseˈteɾo/ [ˌθis.eˈt̪e.ɾo] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /ˌsiseˈteɾo/ [ˌsis.eˈt̪e.ɾo] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: cis‧he‧te‧ro
Adjective
cishetero (invariable)
- (informal) cishetero
- Synonym: cisheterosexual