postgender
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.
adj
Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.
noun
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."
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Synonyms
posttraditional