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neutrois

Syllables: neu·troisUK/ˈnjutɹɑː//ˈnjutɹɑː/

neutrois adjective: chiefly of a person: having a neutral gender (being neither male nor female), and having or seeking to have no or reduced physical sexual characteristics; contrasts with agender.

Adjective

neutrois (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Chiefly of a person: having a neutral gender (being neither male nor female), and having or seeking to have no or reduced physical sexual characteristics; contrasts with agender.
    • "To question my behavior is to deny your own." –Holly A. Burnham […] Gender Punk. Gender Anarchy. Gender Terrorism. Neutrois Revolution! [email signature]1996 December 3, <GoSpangs@aol.com>, “You Can Never Go Home”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet)
    • It [the word transgender(ed)] can also refer to those who present as androgynous or do not define themselves by gender at all. In some cases, these people self-identify as genderqueer, genderless, or neutrois.2005, Matt Kailey, “Trans-lations”, in Just Add Hormones: An Insider’s Guide to the Transsexual Experience, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 167

Examples of neutrois in a sentence

  • A social-media site famously proposes seventy-one gender options—neutrois, two spirit, bigender … any colour you like, Mr Ford.2016, Ian McEwan, chapter 15, in Nutshell […], Toronto, Ont.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf Canada, →ISBN, page 144:
  • Being neutrois is living completely outside the gender binary.2016, Ashley Mardell, “Gender”, in The ABC’s of LGBT+, [Coral Gables, Fla.]: Mango Media, →ISBN, page 126:

Origin of neutrois

Apparently a blend of French neu(tre) (“neuter”, adjective) or its etymon Latin neu(ter) (“neuter”, adjective) + French trois (“three”) (referring to the third gender), coined by Holly A. Burnham in 1995 as a self-description.

Questions about neutrois

What does neutrois mean?
Neutrois means chiefly of a person: having a neutral gender (being neither male nor female), and having or seeking to have no or reduced physical sexual characteristics; contrasts with agender.
How do you use neutrois in a sentence?
A social-media site famously proposes seventy-one gender options—neutrois, two spirit, bigender … any colour you like, Mr Ford.
What part of speech is neutrois?
Neutrois is an adjective.
How do you pronounce neutrois?
Neutrois is pronounced /ˈnjutɹɑː/ (UK).

Words near neutrois in the dictionary

  1. neutrocytopenia
  2. neutrocytosis
  3. Neutrodyne
  4. Neutrodynes
  5. neutroectodermal
  6. neutrois
  7. neutrologistic
  8. neutron
  9. neutron activation analyses
  10. neutron activation analysis
  11. neutron bomb

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