Gender-vague

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.

    "Eskridge complicates the story's implications further by never revealing the gender of the narrator (who is Jo(e)'s director), either by name — it's the gender-vague though suggestive "Mars" — or by pronoun."

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"Eskridge complicates the story's implications further by never revealing the gender of the narrator (who is Jo(e)'s director), either by name — it's the gender-vague though suggestive "Mars" — or by pronoun."

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