gendery

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adjective

Of, related to, or characteristic of gender.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivegendery (comparative more gendery, superlative most gendery)

comparative more gendery · superlative most gendery

  1. informalOf, related to, or characteristic of gender.

    These are not exactly very gendery pieces of clothing.

    2020, endever corbin, “I'm trans and autistic, and yes (for me), they're related”, in Maxfield Sparrow, editor, Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words, page 82
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    Why, to paraphrase Susan Coates (personal communication), are some people "more gendery" than others?

    2004, Lynne Layton, Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?: Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory, unnumbered page

    Of course I'm an advocate for gender equality, but in the consulting room, I'm sensitive to and I hear, I hope, “gendery” and sexual things that are both conscious and unconscious; I hear mother-daughter especially, and I write about that.

    2018, Nancy Chodorow, quoted in Mengchun Chiang, "'You Just Know It's the Only Thing You Can Think': A Conversation with Chodorow", in Radical Visionaries: Feminist Therapy Pioneers, 1970-1975 (eds. Claudia Pitts & Debra M. Kawahara), unnumbered page

Origin

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APA

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

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Chicago

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

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