Cosmopolitan: We didn’t recognise Cara Delevingne with this androgynous dark hair transformation Cara Delevingne is not one to play it safe or stick with one look. I mean, did you see her grey hair for the Met Gala? She started the year with crotch-length extensions, went neo-noir dark for a role ...

Understanding the Context

Just when we thought we couldn't admire Anne Hathaway any more, she's only gone and displayed images of gender non-conformity through the art of beauty – and more specifically, hair. In other words, ... The meaning of ANDROGYNOUS is having the characteristics or nature of both male and female. How to use androgynous in a sentence.

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An androgynous person is an individual who has a high degree of both feminine (expressive) and masculine (instrumental) traits. A feminine individual is ranked high on feminine (expressive) traits and ranked low on masculine (instrumental) traits. The term androgynous is an adjective and is used to describe someone who is "neither specifically feminine nor masculine" and has "characteristics or nature of both male and female." Androgynous is a term used to describe an identity that is neither exclusively masculine nor feminine. A person with an androgynous aesthetic may wear “non-gendered” attire or present as masculine, feminine, both, or outside that binary description. biology specialized having both male and female features (Definition of androgynous from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)