Gender vs. Genre

Gender vs. Genre — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Gender and Genre

Gendernoun

Grammatical gender.

Genrenoun

A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

The still-life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.

Gendernoun

(grammar) 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.

Genrenoun

a kind of literary or artistic work

Gendernoun

(grammar) Any division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.

Genrenoun

a style of expressing yourself in writing

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Gendernoun

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Genrenoun

an expressive style of music

Gendernoun

(obsolete) Class; kind.

Genrenoun

a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique

Gendernoun

Sex a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.

the gene is activated in both gendersThe effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.

Gendernoun

(sociology) 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.

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Gendernoun

(hardware) 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).

Genderverb

(sociology) 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.

Genderverb

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

Genderverb

(archaic) To engender.

Genderverb

To breed.

Gendernoun

a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

Gendernoun

the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;

she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus