agender
/eɪˈdʒɛndɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.78 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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--""
Etymology
c. 2000s, from a- (“not”) + gender.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /eɪˈdʒɛndɚ/
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
see at genderless