cishetero

From cis- +‎ hetero.

cishetero (comparative more cishetero, superlative most cishetero)

1. (informal) Cisgender and heterosexual.
   • 2019, “Alyia”, in Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney, editors, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum‎, page 119:

     There's also a lot of pressure to behave or conform to cishetero standards, but it's okay to be diverse, have differences in nuance.

   • 2020, Alex Iantaffi, Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma‎, page 112:

     This framework does not impact only cishetero men and women.

   • 2021, Emily Anne Parker, Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body‎, page 64:

     […] while men can and should worship the cishetero fantasy of Playboy in which what it means to be a Man is to be effortlessly orgasmic and heterosexually dominating.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cishetero.

• cishet (informal)
• cisheterosexual

From cis- +‎ hetero.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θiʃeˈteɾo/ [θi.ʃeˈt̪e.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /siʃeˈteɾo/ [si.ʃeˈt̪e.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: ci‧she‧te‧ro

cishetero (invariable)

1. (informal) cishetero

• cisheterosexual