gender-free
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.55 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a society, which does not define people on the basis of gender; in which gender is irrelevant to people's lives and choices.
Example Sentences
- "When we rendezvous shortly thereafter, I learn that the box office is being manned, if that's the right word, by an odd-looking grizzled entity unknown to my wife but whom I infer from her description (and soon after confirm) to be the genderfree or ambigendered "Ditsy" from Maintenance, [...]"
- "Individuals holding these views challenge the existing Western binary and categorical sex-gender system, increasingly identifying as bigender, gender blender, or gender-free."
- "I began thinking of myself as a gender-free person."
- "He got the idea of transforming the traditional sashiko — quilted-cotton worker's pants and jacket fabric — into a modern leisure fabric, a homegrown equivalent of denim, which became another early source of gender-free clothing."
- "The term ‘engineer’ is apparently a gender-free term - there is no single word meaning ‘female engineer’ - but it seems to contain an invisible male marking. ‘Nurse’ works in the opposite way, [...]"
- "In the German, Buber often used the term Mensch, a gender-free term, which is best translated as person or human being. In contrast, the term Mann does refer to a male person."