Usually means: Cross-dressing for various personal reasons.
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  1. transvestism: Merriam-Webster
  2. transvestism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transvestism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. transvestism: Vocabulary.com
  5. transvestism: Wordnik
  6. transvestism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. transvestism: Wiktionary
  8. transvestism: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. transvestism: Dictionary.com
  10. Transvestism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. transvestism: Rhymezone
  12. transvestism: FreeDictionary.org
  13. transvestism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. transvestism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Transvestism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. transvestism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Transvestism: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  7. transvestism: Medical dictionary
  8. Transvestism: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Transvestism: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See transvestite as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The condition of being a transvestite.
noun:  (clinical psychology, psychiatry, pathology) A paraphilia typically found in heterosexual males characterized by compulsively seeking and deriving sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
noun:  (zoology, dated) sexual mimicry

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