Meaning

Of a person, agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a person, agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender.
2. Of a word, object, etc., acceptable for or available to any gender.
3. (gradable) 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.

During the same decades in which feminist critiques of generic uses of “man” and “he” led to widespread changes in usage — no mean feat — "you guys” became even more widely accepted as an informal and allegedly gender-free phrase.

Tabyi-daw, Hiroko Kawanami observes, is a gender-free term of self-address used when speaking to monks.

Word Forms

• more gender-free
• most gender-free
• genderfree

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