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genderly

genderly adverb: according to or with regard to gender.

Adverb

genderly (comparative more genderly, superlative most genderly)

  1. (rare) According to or with regard to gender.
    • They do identify themselves ethnically as Italian or Irish or Polish or Puerto Rican, racially as white or black, and genderly as male or female […]1996, Ira Shor, When Students Have Power, page 8
    • If not, are those who do not merely victims of false consciousness, or are they perhaps as genderly programmed, and as firmly, as the most childhood-gender-dysphoric of transsexuals?2000, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 6, page 456

Examples of genderly in a sentence

  • The economic theory, (neo)classical and Chicago style, which has nurtured and sustained this economic worldview is heavily male-focused and entirely genderly biased.2012, Varoozh Sahakian, Neuroeconomics:
  • In my case, I'm genderly different, not just sexually different.2017, Anne M. Harris, Stacy Holman Jones, Sandra L. Faulkner, Queering Families, Schooling Publics:

Forms of genderly

comparativemore genderly
superlativemost genderly

Origin of genderly

From gender + -ly.

Questions about genderly

What does genderly mean?
Genderly means according to or with regard to gender.
How do you use genderly in a sentence?
The economic theory, (neo)classical and Chicago style, which has nurtured and sustained this economic worldview is heavily male-focused and entirely genderly biased.
What part of speech is genderly?
Genderly is an adverb.

Words near genderly in the dictionary

  1. genderlects
  2. genderless
  3. genderlessly
  4. genderlessness
  5. genderlike
  6. genderly
  7. genderneutral
  8. genderology
  9. genderphobia
  10. genderplay
  11. genderpunk

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