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transvestism

n. the habit, practiced by men or women, of wearing the clothes of the opposite sex but without the sexual arousal that cross-dressing serves in the predominately male paraphilia, transvestic fetishism. Also called transvestitism. —transvestic adj. —transvestite n.

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