Gender — synonyms, definition

1. Gender (Noun)

grammatical gender sex sexuality

Gender (Noun) — A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness.

Gender (Noun) — The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles. ex. "she didn't want to know the gender of the foetus"

grammatical category physiological property syntactic category androgyny bisexuality femaleness feminine feminineness hermaphroditism maleness masculine masculinity neuter androgynous asexual female male nonsexual sexual