genderfluid

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British, UK, Southern, Standard/ˈd͡ʒɛndə.ˈfluːɪd/US/ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ.ˈfluɪd/Southern US, pin pen merger/ˈdʒɪndəɹ.ˈfluɪd/

adjective

Not having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivegenderfluid (not comparable)

alternative gender-fluid

  1. not comparableNot having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.

    Another way that one can be "transgressively gendered" is by identifying as genderqueer or genderfluid—i.e., refusing to identify fully as either woman or man.

    2009, Julia Serano, Whipping Girl, page 346
    3 more examples

    A slightly newer term, genderqueer […] is also often used by people who believe they are genderfluid, who feel like both genders, who will sometimes feel male, sometimes female, or who may not believe that there are only two genders.

    2011, Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users, page 29

    For example, "queer" would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the "opposite sex," sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.

    2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies

    "I'm genderfluid! Sometimes a guy, sometimes a girl. Sometimes, I guess, confused shrug? Anyway, I have a spell that lets me change my default form, so my feminine form is not an enchantment."

    2020 October 28, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020

    Synonyms: fluid, genderflux

noungenderfluid (plural genderfluids)

plural genderfluids · alternative gender-fluid

  1. rareA genderfluid person.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
  3. Proto-Italic*genos
  4. Latingenus
  5. Old Frenchgendre
  6. Middle Englishgendre
  7. Englishgender
  8. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*bʰlewH-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*bʰluH-yé-ti?
  11. Latinfluō
  12. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  13. Latinfluidus
  14. Middle Englishfluid
  15. Englishfluid
  16. Englishgenderfluid

From gender + fluid.

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Translations

Dutch genderfluïde
  • genderfluïdenot conforming to fixed gender
Finnish sukupuolijoustava
  • sukupuolijoustavanot conforming to fixed gender
French genre-fluide, genderfluid
  • genre-fluidenot conforming to fixed gender
  • genderfluidnot conforming to fixed gender
German genderfluid, geschlechtsflüssig
  • genderfluidnot conforming to fixed gender
  • geschlechtsflüssignot conforming to fixed gender
Icelandic kynsfljótandi
  • kynsfljótandinot conforming to fixed gender
Irish solúbtha ó thaobh inscne de
  • solúbtha ó thaobh inscne denot conforming to fixed gender
Japanese 不定性
  • 不定性 (futei sei)not conforming to fixed gender
Polish genderfluid
  • genderfluidnot conforming to fixed gender
Portuguese gênero-fluido
  • gênero-fluidonot conforming to fixed gender
Spanish de género fluido
  • de género fluidonot conforming to fixed gender

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with genderfluid

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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