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genderal

genderal adjective: related to grammatical gender (division of nouns etc. into categories like masculine, feminine, etc.).

Adjective

genderal

  1. (uncommon) Related to grammatical gender (division of nouns etc. into categories like masculine, feminine, etc.)
    • We find a grammatical gender of a kind in Lᴇk·oñḗnᴇñ as in some of the other Salish dialects. […] but it must be clearly understood that no genderal distinction is made in the pronoun proper, only in the locative or demonstrative particles attached to it, […]1907, C. Hill Tout, “Report on the Ethnology of the South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island, British Columbia”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume...
  2. (uncommon) Related to a person's state of being a man, woman, etc.
    • Hysteria is ordinarily, but no without exception, a disease pertaining to the female organization. The maladive condition seems rather to belong to the sexual element, the aphrodisiac infusion, than to the genderal peculiarity; and although it is an epicene affection, it is by far the most...1853 August 3, [unkown], “Hysteria”, in J. V. C. Smith, editor, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 49, number 1, Boston: David Clapp, →DOI, page 17
    • When asked might a woman wear pants / That a critical fellow named Kant / Snapped back in reply, / "Attempts to transcend genderal / distinctions to posit a / gynandromorphic category / of clothal relationships / leads to syllogism and / antinomy." / Which of course in Kant cant means she can't.1949 Summer, Nick Norton, “Transcendental Limerick”, in M. Patricia Ripley, Sperry Lea, editors, Counterpoint, →OCLC, page 18

Origin of genderal

From gender + -al, likely modeled on sexual, especially in later usage.

Questions about genderal

What does genderal mean?
Genderal means related to grammatical gender (division of nouns etc. into categories like masculine, feminine, etc.).
What part of speech is genderal?
Genderal is an adjective.

Words near genderal in the dictionary

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

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