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🧑 Not linked to gender 🔤 No grammatical gender
ungendered

ungendered

7.4
Not marked as masculine, feminine, or neuter in a language
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈdʒɛndərd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sin género
  • In the ungendered version of the text, the pronouns are neutral, making it inclusive for all readers.

Examples

  • Youth and females were viewed as essentially masculinized workers (munks), an image reinforced by the blue overalls so visible in the media of the 1950s, and aided by the ungendered Hungarian language.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The use of ungendered language in the report helped to avoid bias against any specific group.

  • Using ungendered terms in education allows all students to feel represented and included.

Synonyms

genderless
vsungendered
  • Specialized
5.1

Not marked as masculine or feminine in grammar

also lacks neuter marking, making the term broader in scope

Antonyms

gendered
  • Specialized
1 5.7

Having words that are masculine or feminine in grammar

Surface Forms

ungendered positive

Morphology

ungendered = ungender (transparent) = un + gender + ed

Formed by adding '-ed' to 'ungender' (which is transparently un- + gender), yielding an adjective meaning 'not marked for grammatical gender'.

Etymology

The word ungendered combines un- ('not') with gender, which comes from an old word for 'kind' or 'type' and is the same root as genre and generation. So when a language or word is called ungendered, it is not marked as 'masculine', 'feminine', or 'neuter'.