Meanings
- uncountableThe changing of a character's gender within a story.
There is one episode in the novel, however, where questions of racial masquerade intrude on the freewheeling genderbending of the main characters.
2000, David John Bell, Barbara M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, page 4521 more example
The genre is traditionally nonsexual, despite the scantily clad bimbos on the covers of its pulp magazines of the 1950s and despite its politically correct genderbending of the 1970s and 1980s.
2006, Peter Swirski, The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem, page 75
- not comparableConfounding attempts to identity one's gender, especially by dressing in the clothes of another sex or in a way that makes one's gender identity ambiguous.
When the band broke up, Reed reinvented himself as a genderbending gutter poet and earned the nickname “The Godfather of Punk”, mostly by going out his way to subvert his fans' expectations on albums […]
2012, Combat Rock: A History of Punk (From It's^([sic]) Origins to the Present), →ISBN
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of genderbend
Origin
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genderbending. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genderbending
“genderbending.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genderbending. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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