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gender-vague

gender-vague adjective: of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.

Adjective

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

  1. Of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.
    • Eskridge complicates the story's implications further by never revealing the gender of the narrator (who is Jo(e)'s director), either by name — it's the gender-vague though suggestive "Mars" — or by pronoun.2000, The New York Review of Science Fiction - Issues 137-148, page 15
    • Performers who scrupulously stuck to gender-vague lyrics, refused to talk about their personal lives, and dithered about avoiding labels and identities, began to feel the pressure from their fans.2001, Larry Gross, Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America, →ISBN

Forms of gender-vague

comparativemore gender-vague
superlativemost gender-vague
alternative formgender vague

Questions about gender-vague

What does gender-vague mean?
Gender-vague means of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.
What part of speech is gender-vague?
Gender-vague is an adjective.

Words near gender-vague in the dictionary

  1. gender-role
  2. gender-safe
  3. gender-specific
  4. gender-specifically
  5. gender-swapping
  6. gender-vague
  7. genderable
  8. genderal
  9. genderbend
  10. genderbender
  11. genderbenders

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