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| agreement |
in grammar, correspondence between the number, person, or grammatical gender of two syntactically connected words, esp.that of subject and verb or adjective and noun. [1/5 definitions] |
| butch |
(slang) of a female, having the appearance or behavior usu. associated with masculine gender. [1/2 definitions] |
| cisgender |
of, pertaining to, or being a person whose personal gender identity corresponds with the sex that this person was born with or was assigned at the time of birth. |
| come out |
to reveal one's sexual orientation or gender identity. [1/8 definitions] |
| declension |
in grammar, the process of listing systematically the inflected forms of an adjective, a noun, or a pronoun by categories such as case, gender, and number. [1/3 definitions] |
| demographic |
a portion of a human population with a shared characteristic or characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, or income. [2/3 definitions] |
| effeminate |
of a man or boy, having qualities of appearance, manner, or behavior conventionally associated with feminine rather than masculine gender; unmanly. |
| epicene |
of Greek and Latin nouns, having only one form that indicates either gender. [1/3 definitions] |
| Equal Rights Amendment |
a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would prohibit the infringement of rights because of gender. |
| ERA |
abbreviation of "Equal Rights Amendment," a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would prohibit the infringement of rights because of gender. |
| feminine |
in grammar, designating a female gender of nouns and pronouns in certain languages. (Cf. masculine, neuter.) [2/4 definitions] |
| genderless |
combined form of gender. |
| Indo-European |
of or pertaining to a family of languages that share such characteristics as inflection, grammatical number, and usu. gender, including most European and many Indian and Southeast Asian languages. [1/5 definitions] |
| inflection |
in grammar, the alteration in the form of words that allows the communication of information such as the gender, number, or case of a noun; the tense of a verb; or the degree of an adjective or adverb. [1/5 definitions] |
| it |
used to indicate an animal, abstract thing, group, inanimate object, or being of undetermined gender that has been mentioned or is about to be mentioned. [1/6 definitions] |
| Latinx |
(sometimes considered offensive) being or pertaining to a person or persons of Latin American ancestry (used in order to avoid gender specificity). |
| masculine |
in grammar, designating a male gender of nouns and pronouns in certain languages. (Cf. feminine, neuter.) [2/4 definitions] |
| monotype |
in biology, a single species that is the unique representative of its gender, family, or higher taxonomic classification. |
| monotypic |
of a biological species, being the unique representative of one's gender, family, or higher taxonomic classification. |
| neuter |
in grammar, neither feminine nor masculine with respect to gender. [2/9 definitions] |
| sex |
to determine the gender of. [1/6 definitions] |
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