agender en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /eɪˈdʒɛndɚ/ (US)
Etymology
c. 2000s, from a- (“not”) + gender.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Lacking gender (in any sense) entirely.
"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).
2000 November 21, abbycat2 [username], “Re: God and Grammar”, in soc.religion.quaker (Usenet):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.
2000 July 28, Miriam Wolfe, “Re: The Genealogy of J---s Question”, in alt.messianic (Usenet):"'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--"
[2020 April 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Apr 6, 2020:But despite this near-universality of gender, cultures can have transgender, agender, and hypergender individuals.
2005 July 20, man_in_black529 [username], “Re: Homosexuality and the Bible”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):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.
2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019:
Coordinates
Relateds
bigender · transgender · gender-neutral · genderqueer · genderfluid · third gender · gender-free · cisgender
Synonyms
Translations (20)
la agenus (having no gender) · es agénero (having no gender) · la insexus (having no gender) · de geschlechtlos (having no gender) · ca agènere (having no gender) · gl axénero (having no gender) · ja 無性 (having no gender) · fr agenre (having no gender) · fi suvuton (having no gender) · cmn 無性別 /无性别 (having no gender) · tr cinsiyetsiz (having no gender) · de ungeschlechtlich (having no gender) · eo sengenra (having no gender) · ar لَاجَنْدَرِيّ (having no gender) · fi sukupuoleton (having no gender) · la sine genere (having no gender) · pt agénero (having no gender) · la sine sexū (having no gender) · pt agênero (having no gender) · yi אָנמיניק (having no gender)