agender
English
Etymology
c. 2000s, a- (“not”) + gender
Adjective
agender (not comparable)
- Without an associated gender (in any sense); not having a particular gender.
- An agender noun includes both the masculine and feminine forms.
- 2000 July 28, Miriam Wolfe, “Re: The Genealogy of J---s Question”, in alt.messianic, Usenet:
- All I understand is that G-d is amorphous, agender, etc. so "image" can't be a physical or gender or sexual thing.
- 2000 November 21, abbycat2 [username], “Re: God and Grammar”, in soc.religion.quaker, Usenet:
- "He" has been used as the default pronoun, and as I said, unfortunately there is no agender equivalent to he/she, as "it" is usually equated with something without life, or at least of a life form considered to be less intelligent (that in itself is negotiable, but this is for a different topic).
- 2005 July 20, man_in_black529 [username], “Re: Homosexuality and the Bible”, in alt.politics.democrats, Usenet:
- But despite this near-universality of gender, cultures can have transgender, agender, and hypergender individuals.
- [2020 April 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Apr 6, 2020:
- "'Agender'? I'm pretty sure that means not identifying as a particular gender? I'm sorry. That's just what it made me think of. I'm not trying to tell you what to--"]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:agender.
Synonyms
- See genderless
Hypernyms
- transgender
Related terms
- transgender
- bigender
- third gender
- genderqueer
- genderfluid
- cisgender
Translations
having no gender
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See also
- gender-free, gender-neutral
Further reading
- “agender”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “agender, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- agender at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “agender”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Anagrams
- Redange, angered, derange, en garde, enraged, grandee, grenade