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ungenderable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + genderable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) To which no gender can be assigned.
    • A notable instance is the placing of burnt, and hence ungenderable, fragments of human cranial bones inside a complete female anthropomorphic vessel deposited in the Koros settlement of Hodmezovasarhely-Gorzsa […] 2013, John Chapman, Fragmentation in Archaeology:
    • At the same time, she crossed the boundaries separating men from women not with a cozy androgyny, nor even with the 'glam rock' stylizations of the period, but by displaying a cold and forbidding, more-than-masculine, and ultimately ungenderable hardbody. 2010, Steven Shaviro, Post Cinematic Affect: