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androgyny
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androgyny /an·drog·y·ny/ (an-droj´i-ne)
1. sexual ambiguity, either physical or psychological.
2. female pseudohermaphroditism.androg´ynous

an·drog·y·ny (n-drj-n)
n.
1. Female pseudohermaphroditism.
2. The condition of having both masculine and feminine characteristics, as in appearance, attitude, or behavior.

an·drogy·nous (-ns) adj.

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Judith in the Fine Arts: The Appeal of the Archetypal Androgyne.
The head of General Molotov (all works 1994-2005), for example--a bust of a man whose green plastic bib, studded with brass tacks, suggested a military uniform--had been rudely bisected by a piece of glass topped with a lump of foam, while the figure in Most Isolated Human Being was an armless, gold-painted androgyne whose coral-colored brains appeared to be spilling out of its head.
The fulfillment of desire then consists in the (re)union of two complementary bodies--the male with male, the female with the female, and the androgyne with his or her other half, once more forming an originary whole.
 
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