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antigender

antigender adjective: opposing gender roles or gender distinctions.

Adjective

antigender (comparative more antigender, superlative most antigender)

  1. Opposing gender roles or gender distinctions.
    • Heaven's Gate's antifamily, antigender, radical egalitarian celebration of sameness...2003, Harry G. West, Todd Sanders, Transparency and conspiracy: ethnographies of suspicion in the new world order
  2. Opposed to things like transgender rights; marked by antigenderism.
    • Some right-wing-inclined academics gave 'antigender' talks whose controversial contents are clearly expressed in their titles: 'Gender, jak sie ̨ przed tym […]'2015, Abolaji S. Mustapha, Sara Mills, Gender Representation in Learning Materials: International Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 211
    • […] especially at the grassroots level, and in books and brochures, is manifest in the so-called antigender initiatives (like “STOP Gender”).2015, Marian J. Rubchak, New Imaginaries: Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 43

Forms of antigender

comparativemore antigender
superlativemost antigender

Origin of antigender

From anti- + gender.

Words formed from antigender

Questions about antigender

What does antigender mean?
Antigender means opposing gender roles or gender distinctions.
What part of speech is antigender?
Antigender is an adjective.

Words near antigender in the dictionary

  1. antigen
  2. antigen-presenting cell
  3. antigenaemia
  4. antigenaemias
  5. antigenaemic
  6. antigender
  7. antigenderism
  8. antigenderist
  9. antigenderists
  10. antigene
  11. antigenemia

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