ungenderable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ genderable

Adjective[edit]

ungenderable (not comparable)

  1. To which no gender can be assigned.
    • 2010, Steven Shaviro, Post Cinematic Affect:
      At the same time, she crossed the boundaries separating men from women not with a cozy androgyny, nor even with the 'glam rock' stylizations of the period, but by displaying a cold and forbidding, more-than-masculine, and ultimately ungenderable hardbody.
    • 2013, John Chapman, Fragmentation in Archaeology:
      A notable instance is the placing of burnt, and hence ungenderable, fragments of human cranial bones inside a complete female anthropomorphic vessel deposited in the Koros settlement of Hodmezovasarhely-Gorzsa []