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gendery

gendery adjective: of, related to, or characteristic of gender.

Adjective

gendery (comparative more gendery, superlative most gendery)

  1. (informal) Of, related to, or characteristic of gender.
    • Why, to paraphrase Susan Coates (personal communication), are some people "more gendery" than others?2004, Lynne Layton, Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?: Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory, unnumbered page
    • Of course I'm an advocate for gender equality, but in the consulting room, I'm sensitive to and I hear, I hope, “gendery” and sexual things that are both conscious and unconscious; I hear mother-daughter especially, and I write about that.2018, Nancy Chodorow, quoted in Mengchun Chiang, "'You Just Know It's the Only Thing You Can Think': A Conversation with Chodorow", in Radical Visionaries: Feminist Therapy Pioneers, 1970-1975 (eds....

Forms of gendery

comparativemore gendery
superlativemost gendery

Origin of gendery

From gender + -y.

Questions about gendery

What does gendery mean?
Gendery means of, related to, or characteristic of gender.
What part of speech is gendery?
Gendery is an adjective.

Words near gendery in the dictionary

  1. genderswaps
  2. gendertrash
  3. gendervague
  4. genderweird
  5. genderwise
  6. gendery
  7. gendie
  8. gendies
  9. Gendlinian
  10. Gendreau
  11. Gendreaus

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