gender

Definitions

(Noun) 1) A varying range of physical, emotional and behavioral characteristics that characterize femininity and masculinity.
2) How an individual identifies regarding their sense of "self" in terms of "female" and "male."

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(Noun) either male or female.

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The state of being male or female, as in gender identity and gender roles. In every day speech, sex and gender are used interchangeably; in the social sciences however, a distinction is made between them, sex refering to the biological makeup of the human body, its genital configuration, while gender refers to the social meanings and characteristics associated with certain types of people.

Quote: From Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing by Robert Reisner: ' Love is many gendered thing.' (This saying paraphrases: Love is many splendored thing.)