agender

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US/eɪˈdʒɛndɚ/

adjective

Lacking gender (in any sense) entirely.

“An agender noun includes both the masculine and feminine forms.”

Similar
see at genderless
Scrabble 9

Meanings

adjectiveagender (not comparable)
  1. not comparableLacking gender (in any sense) entirely.

    An agender noun includes both the masculine and feminine forms.

    5 more examples

    All I understand is that G-d is amorphous, agender, etc. so "image" can't be a physical or gender or sexual thing.

    2000 July 28, Miriam Wolfe, “Re: The Genealogy of J---s Question”, in alt.messianic (Usenet)

    "He" has been used as the default pronoun, and as I said, unfortunately there is no agender equivalent to he/she, as "it" is usually equated with something without life, or at least of a life form considered to be less intelligent (that in itself is negotiable, but this is for a different topic).

    2000 November 21, abbycat2 [username], “Re: God and Grammar”, in soc.religion.quaker (Usenet)

    But despite this near-universality of gender, cultures can have transgender, agender, and hypergender individuals.

    2005 July 20, man_in_black529 [username], “Re: Homosexuality and the Bible”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet)

    There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.

    2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019

    "'Agender'? I'm pretty sure that means not identifying as a particular gender? I'm sorry. That's just what it made me think of. I'm not trying to tell you what to--"

    [2020 April 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Apr 6, 2020

    Synonyms: see at genderless

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveLacking gender (in any sense) entirely.

Similar
see at genderless

Origin

c. 2000s, from a- (“not”) + gender.

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Translations

Arabic لَاجَنْدَرِيّ
  • لَاجَنْدَرِيّ (lājandariyy)having no gender
Catalan agènere
  • agènerehaving no gender
Chinese Mandarin 無性別 /无性别
  • 無性別 /无性别 (wúxìngbié)having no gender
Esperanto sengenra
  • sengenrahaving no gender
Finnish suvuton, sukupuoleton
  • suvutonhaving no gender
  • sukupuoletonhaving no gender
French agenre
  • agenrehaving no gender
German geschlechtlos, ungeschlechtlich
  • geschlechtloshaving no gender
  • ungeschlechtlichhaving no gender
Japanese 無性
  • 無性 (musei)having no gender
Latin sine sexū, sine genere
  • sine sexūhaving no gender
  • sine generehaving no gender
  • agenushaving no gender
  • insexushaving no gender
Portuguese agênero, agénero
  • agênerohaving no gender
  • agénerohaving no gender
Spanish agénero
  • agénerohaving no gender
Turkish cinsiyetsiz
  • cinsiyetsizhaving no gender
Yiddish אָנמיניק
  • אָנמיניק (onminik)having no gender

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APA

agender. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agender

MLA

“agender.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agender. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “agender,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agender.

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