Noun
a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
Source: WordNetFaderman (1981), p. 241. Krafft-Ebing, who considered lesbianism (what he termed " Uranism ") a neurological disease, and Ellis, who was influenced by Krafft-Ebing's writings, disagreed about whether sexual inversion was generally a lifelong condition. Source: Internet
Foster, p. 72. Havelock Ellis used literary examples from Balzac and several French poets and writers to develop his framework to identify sexual inversion in women. Source: Internet