gender vs gender identity

gender

noun
  • Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.) 

  • A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. 

  • Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). 

  • The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type). 

  • An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music. 

  • Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”) 

adj
  • Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender. 

verb
  • To breed. 

  • To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender. 

  • To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender. 

gender identity

noun
  • A person's internal sense of self as belonging to a particular gender or genders, or to no gender. 

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