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contrasexual

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contrasexual [kon-trah-sek´shoo-al]
1. in psychiatry, said of the personality traits that most people repress because they are characteristic of the opposite sex.
2. having secondary sex characters appropriate to the opposite sex. Called also heterosexual.
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