gender-neutralize en · VERB
Etymology
From gender-neutral + -ize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To render (something) gender-neutral.
If we're going to gender-neutralize some parts of English, why don't we just gender-neutralize everything?
2024, Luvell Anderson, Ernie Lepore, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, page 313:J.K. Rowling, among the most notable women to have gender-neutralized their names, is part of a very long tradition that includes the Bronte sisters (aka, the Bell Brothers), Louisa May Alcott (B.A. Evans),[…].
2015 October 8, Soraya Chemaly, “Today's Nobel Prize in Literature is a Win for Humanity”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 May 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gender-neutralized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gender-neutralized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| gender-neutralizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| gender-neutralizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |