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gender

gender

336 2.8
How a person feels about being male, female, both, neither, or another identity
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒɛndər/
translation icon : identidad de género
  • I was breaking gender stereotypes.
  • gender identity
  • a gender role
  • gender differences

It's a spectrum like gender and light and.

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Examples

  • We don't discriminate based on gender.

  • That no matter your gender, no matter where you're born from, you are not limited.

  • There was no such thing as gender without race.

  • My question is, what does gender feel like, if anything?

  • Sort of, you know, gender has an impact, right?

  • According to Butler, all gender works that way.

  • And society understands gender better than they do race.

  • Let's get your thoughts on whether gender is binary.

  • Throughout the process, issues of gender, class, and stigma surfaced in theater exercises, discussions, and arguments.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Many people now openly express their gender identity, regardless of societal expectations.

Synonyms

gender identity
vsgender
8 4.0

A person's inner feeling about being male, female, both, or neither

includes social roles and outward expression beyond that internal sense

Idioms

1 8.0

To mention someone's gender to gain an advantage in a discussion

8.4

To mention being a woman or man to avoid blame and get sympathy

Compounds

11 3.4

Ideas in a society about how men and women should behave

A person's inner feeling about being male, female, both, or neither

Different ways people understand and show themselves as male, female, both, or neither

grammatical gender
  • Specialized
1 7.7

A system in some languages that puts nouns into groups like masculine or feminine

gender agreement
  • Specialized
6.2

Words in a phrase use the same masculine or feminine form

Surface Forms

gender singular
genders plural

Etymology

Gender comes from the old root gen- meaning 'kind' or 'birth', like in gene and generate. People later used it for the social or personal 'kind' someone feels or shows, so it now covers identity as well as biological sex.