gender vague

A form of gender-vague — Of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.

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Meanings

adjectivegender vague (comparative more gender vague, superlative most gender vague)

comparative more gender vague · superlative most gender vague

  1. alternativeAlternative form of gender-vague.

    Nowadays, clothing and fashion has become more gender vague.

    2017, Joanne Leung, The Book of Transgender in Hong Kong: Gossip Boys & Girls Book
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    LeGuin published a short story in Playboy and was asked to use just initials--Mid 60s I think. Andre Norton is a gender vague name. It took me years to find out that she was a she.

    1993 June 22, Susan Eisenhour, “Gender Discrimination in publishing (was Re: What is this Book ??)”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet)

    When those onnagata gender acts representing that idealized beauty are ravaged, the figure that emerges is chaotic and unbalanced, it's gender vague and ambiguous.

    2005, K. Mezur, Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness, →ISBN
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APA

gender vague. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gender%20vague

MLA

“gender vague.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gender%20vague. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gender vague,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gender%20vague.

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