sexual inversion

1. 1.

   a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex

   Synonymsinversion

   Broaderhomosexuality

Questions about sexual inversion

What does sexual inversion mean?

sexual inversion means "a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex".

What is another word for sexual inversion?

Close synonyms include inversion. 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 sexual inversion a common word?

sexual inversion 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.