gender-free
gender-free adjective: of a person, agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender.
Adjective
gender-free (comparative more gender-free, superlative most gender-free)
- Of a person, agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender.
- When we rendezvous shortly thereafter, I learn that the box office is being manned, if that's the right word, by an odd-looking grizzled entity unknown to my wife but whom I infer from her description (and soon after confirm) to be the genderfree or ambigendered "Ditsy" from Maintenance, [...]2002, John Barth, Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative, page 294
- Individuals holding these views challenge the existing Western binary and categorical sex-gender system, increasingly identifying as bigender, gender blender, or gender-free.2008, Sara Schwarzbaum, Anita Jones Thomas, Dimensions of multicultural counseling: a life story approach, page 369
- Of a word, object, etc., acceptable for or available to any gender.
- He got the idea of transforming the traditional sashiko — quilted-cotton worker's pants and jacket fabric — into a modern leisure fabric, a homegrown equivalent of denim, which became another early source of gender-free clothing.1988, The Connoisseur, volume 218, numbers 912-915, page 108
- The term ‘engineer’ is apparently a gender-free term - there is no single word meaning ‘female engineer’ - but it seems to contain an invisible male marking. ‘Nurse’ works in the opposite way, [...]2001, Alison Ross, Jen Greatrex, A2 English language and literature for AQA B, page 130
- Synonyms:
- gender-neutral
- Of a society, which does not define people on the basis of gender; in which gender is irrelevant to people's lives and choices.
- So once the notion of a gender-free society is clarified, there should be widespread agreement [...]1996, Karen Warren, Duane L. Cady, Bringing peace home: feminism, violence, and nature, page 215
- Many argue that we must build a gender-free world, that is, a world in which society does not define and organize all people on the basis of gender categories.2004, D. Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca Zinn, In conflict and order: understanding society, page 325
- Synonyms:
- genderless
Examples of gender-free in a sentence
- I began thinking of myself as a gender-free person.2011, Genny Beemyn, Susan Rankin, The Lives of Transgender People:
- In the German, Buber often used the term Mensch, a gender-free term, which is best translated as person or human being.2003, James William Walters, Martin Buber & feminist ethics: the priority of the personal, page 111:
- Tabyi-daw, Hiroko Kawanami observes, is a gender-free term of self-address used when speaking to monks.2007, Ingrid Jordt, Burma's mass lay meditation movement, page 160:
- Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea.2007, Tom Brokaw, Boom!, page 482:
Synonyms of gender-free
Antonyms
Forms of gender-free
| comparative | more gender-free |
|---|---|
| superlative | most gender-free |
| alternative form | genderfree |
Origin of gender-free
From gender + -free.
Questions about gender-free
- What does gender-free mean?
- Gender-free means of a person, agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender.
- How do you use gender-free in a sentence?
- I began thinking of myself as a gender-free person.
- What part of speech is gender-free?
- Gender-free is an adjective.
Words near gender-free in the dictionary
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