hermaphrodism

1. 1.

   congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics

   Synonymshermaphroditism

   Broaderbirth defect

Other forms of hermaphrodism

plural

hermaphrodisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hermaphrodism

What does hermaphrodism mean?

hermaphrodism means "congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics".

How many syllables are in hermaphrodism?

hermaphrodism has 4 syllables: her-maph-ro-dism. The stress falls on "maph".

What is another word for hermaphrodism?

Close synonyms include hermaphroditism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hermaphrodism a common word?

hermaphrodism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.