Gender-free

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a person, agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender.

    "When we rendezvous shortly thereafter, I learn that the box office is being manned, if that's the right word, by an odd-looking grizzled entity unknown to my wife but whom I infer from her description (and soon after confirm) to be the genderfree or ambigendered "Ditsy" from Maintenance, [...]"

  2. 2
    Of a word, object, etc., acceptable for or available to any gender.

    "He got the idea of transforming the traditional sashiko — quilted-cotton worker's pants and jacket fabric — into a modern leisure fabric, a homegrown equivalent of denim, which became another early source of gender-free clothing."

  3. 3
    Of a society, which does not define people on the basis of gender; in which gender is irrelevant to people's lives and choices.

    "So once the notion of a gender-free society is clarified, there should be widespread agreement [...]"

Synonyms

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agenderagenderedgender-neutralgenderless

Example

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"Alex is considered a gender-free name."

Etymology

From gender + -free.

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