omnigender

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

omni- +‎ gender; title of a 2001 book by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott.

Adjective[edit]

omnigender (not comparable)

  1. Treating all genders as one or the same, not discriminating or distinguishing between them; unisex.
    • 2006 March 16, Raymond Lowry, You Already Know Italian: Learn the Easiest 5,000 Italian Words and Phrases That Are Nearly Identico to English, McGraw Hill Professional:
      The omnigender term nipote (nee-POH-teh) can refer to either a grandchild of either sex or to a niece or nephew.
    • 2010 August 4, Patricia Hawley, Desperate for Authenticity: A Critical Analysis of the Feminist Theology of Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 54:
      Also bathrooms would all be unisexual, without differentiation. Basically, the ultimate goal of an omnigender society would be an acceptance of the full range of sexual and gender identities, from the most feminine of females to the []
    • 2012 April 16, Lawrence P. Jackson, My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 94:
      Charity Hundley had made, in fact, two leaps: one from enslavement, the other from the not female/not male omnigender role that human bondage forced on black women, who were and reproduced the labor force. Undoubtedly Charity Hundley's []
  2. Identifying with all genders.

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