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inversion
Updated on 11/15/2023
n.
in
Piagetian theory
, see
negation
.
in vision, a reversed image formed on the retina.
a historical theory from the late 19th and early 20th century describing same-sex attraction or orientation as a form of gender variance, in which there was an inborn reversal or inversion of gender traits.
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