neuterlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

neuter +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

neuterlike (comparative more neuterlike, superlative most neuterlike)

  1. Having neuter characteristics; apparently sexless.
    • 2002, Susan J. Ferguson, Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology, page 353:
      In another critique that glorifies male aggression, Frank Chin (1972) contrasted the neuterlike characteristics assigned to Asian men to the sexually aggressive images associated with other men of color: []
    • 2004, Martha Rosler, Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001, page 95:
      Wielding the simulacra of phallocratic corporate power, pop artists (like the diminutive, neuterlike Wizard of Oz) symbolically pursued their only hope of securing some of that male power themselves.