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gender-blind

UK/ˈdʒɛndəˌblaɪnd/US/ˈd͡ʒɛndɚˌblaɪnd/

gender-blind adjective: having the quality of ignoring gender, such as organizations that accept and/or house people together without discriminating on the basis of gender.

Adjective

gender-blind (comparative more gender-blind, superlative most gender-blind)

  1. Having the quality of ignoring gender, such as organizations that accept and/or house people together without discriminating on the basis of gender.
    • I note, however, no universal gender-blind pronoun is recommended. If we all use different third pronouns, they’ll become fourth, fifth, 200th pronouns, and clarity will be lost.2015 January 30, Gary Nunn, “Is it time we agreed on a gender-neutral singular pronoun?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2021
    • And Dachs’s decision to have women play some of the male roles, most prominently Kira, is very effective. / Gender-blind casting is, of course, not uncommon in Japanese theater, and Dachs herself is a former member of that country’s all-female Takarazuka Revue company […].2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2022

Forms of gender-blind

comparativemore gender-blind
superlativemost gender-blind
alternative formgender blind
alternative formgenderblind

Origin of gender-blind

From gender + blind, by analogy with color blind (“holding no prejudice based on skin color; not paying attention to skin color”).

Questions about gender-blind

What does gender-blind mean?
Gender-blind means having the quality of ignoring gender, such as organizations that accept and/or house people together without discriminating on the basis of gender.
What part of speech is gender-blind?
Gender-blind is an adjective.
How do you pronounce gender-blind?
Gender-blind is pronounced /ˈdʒɛndəˌblaɪnd/ (UK).

Words near gender-blind in the dictionary

  1. gender-baiting
  2. gender-balanced
  3. gender-bender
  4. gender-benders
  5. gender-binary
  6. gender-blind
  7. gender-critical
  8. gender-critical feminism
  9. gender-critical feminisms
  10. gender-critical feminist
  11. gender-critical feminists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gender-blind (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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