Meaning

Lacking gender (in any sense) entirely..

Example Sentences

An agender noun includes both the masculine and feminine forms.

All I understand is that G-d is amorphous, agender, etc. so "image" can't be a physical or gender or sexual thing.

"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).

But despite this near-universality of gender, cultures can have transgender, agender, and hypergender individuals.

There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.

"'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--"

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Use agender when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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