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gender-neutralizing

gender-neutralizing is the present participle and gerund of gender-neutralize.

Meaning of gender-neutralize

Verb

gender-neutralize (third-person singular simple present gender-neutralizes, present participle gender-neutralizing, simple past and past participle gender-neutralized)

  1. (transitive) To render (something) gender-neutral.
    • J.K. Rowling, among the most notable women to have gender-neutralized their names, is part of a very long tradition that includes the Bronte sisters (aka, the Bell Brothers), Louisa May Alcott (B.A. Evans),[…].2015 October 8, Soraya Chemaly, “Today's Nobel Prize in Literature is a Win for Humanity”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 May 2023

Questions about gender-neutralizing

What is gender-neutralizing the present participle and gerund of?
Gender-neutralizing is the present participle and gerund of gender-neutralize.

Words near gender-neutralizing in the dictionary

  1. gender-neutral
  2. gender-neutrality
  3. gender-neutralize
  4. gender-neutralized
  5. gender-neutralizes
  6. gender-neutralizing
  7. gender-neutrally
  8. gender-nonconforming
  9. gender-role
  10. gender-safe
  11. gender-specific

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gender-neutralizing (page history and authors); gender-neutralize (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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