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gender vague en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of gender-vague.
    • Nowadays, clothing and fashion has become more gender vague. 2017, Joanne Leung, The Book of Transgender in Hong Kong: Gossip Boys & Girls Book:
    • When those onnagata gender acts representing that idealized beauty are ravaged, the figure that emerges is chaotic and unbalanced, it's gender vague and ambiguous. 2005, K. Mezur, Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness, →ISBN:
    • LeGuin published a short story in Playboy and was asked to use just initials--Mid 60s I think. Andre Norton is a gender vague name. It took me years to find out that she was a she. 1993 June 22, Susan Eisenhour, “Gender Discrimination in publishing (was Re: What is this Book ??)”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

Forms

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more gender vague Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most gender vague Degree=Sup lexicographic