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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
transvestitism is a noun meaning "the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex". It carries one recorded sense.
the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transvestitism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.