Synonyms for gender
ˈdʒɛn dərgen·der

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1. gender

   Sex is a distinction among living beings; it is also the characteristic by which most living beings are distinguished from inanimate things, which are of no sex; gender is a distinction in language partially corresponding to this distinction in nature; while there are but two sexes, there are in some languages, as in English and German, three genders. The French language has but two genders and makes the names of all inanimate objects either masculine or feminine; some languages are without the distinction of gender, and those that maintain it are often quite arbitrary in its application. We speak of the masculine or feminine gender, the male or female sex.

   Synonyms:
   sex

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1. gender, grammatical gendernoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   grammatical gender, sex, sexuality

2. sex, gender, sexualitynoun

   the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

   "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"

   Synonyms:
   sexual urge, grammatical gender, sexuality, sex, sexual practice, sexual activity, sex activity

Matched Categories

1. • Grammatical Category
   • Physiological Property

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1. List of paraphrases for "gender":

   sex, gender-based, género, gen, sexes, gender-specific, gender-, gender-related, genus, kind, genre, parity, gender-sensitive, sexual, women, male-female, type, genera, sort

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1. Francis DeBernardo:

   The workshop fills a void at the World Meeting of Families, no speakers at the World Meeting will address the topic of gender identity, yet this is an issue that is being faced by more and more Catholic families and communities in the U.S.

2. Michael Waltz:

   Now we're instructing every cadet entering Air Force Academy to not say mom and dad, to not say boyfriend or girlfriend, and this kind of drive towards gender neutrality, i think Air Force Academy should be worried about the macro aggressions against America that are happening all over the world.

3. Tim Wildmon:

   Gender is not fluid, either you have a penis or you don’t, what Planned Parenthood is promoting here is just stupidity masked as sensitivity. If you’re an adult and trying to talk to a child about whether they’re really a boy or girl, you’re at risk of harming them psychologically.

4. Nicole Neily:

   Claims that bans on critical race theory prohibit ‘teaching about racism in schools’ are factually inaccurate - and that's not, in fact, what parents or legislators oppose at all, people object to the rampant discrimination taking place in America's schools that treat children differently on the basis of immutable characteristics such as race and gender – which is something that all Americans should oppose, because to do so is both immoral and unconstitutional.

5. Lazarus Gates:

   It's hard to be referred to [as] something different than who you are just because you weren't born as it, to be a stigmatized minority is difficult in itself, to be suffering from what we call gender dysphoria in and of itself.