Meaning

(Having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.
2. (of a marriage or couple) Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.
3. (rare) A person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.

Example Sentences

Gay and lesbian folks don't have a corner on the market — of course there are straight people who think about gender — but odds were better that our gay and lesbian friends were going to be a little more postgender in their thinking, […]

Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.

Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.

Contributors to Posthuman Bodies, edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, offer futuristic looks at "queers," trans-genders, postgenders, and automated teller machines,

Similarly, there will be all sorts of individuals among trans-people too: we are not represented by transsexuals only, there are transvestites, transgenders, genderblenders, postgenders etc. in our midst.

Word Forms

• more postgender
• most postgender
• postgenders

Synonyms for postgender

Antonyms for postgender

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When Should You Use Postgender?

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

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