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Beyond vs Postgender - What's the difference?

beyond | postgender |

As nouns the difference between beyond and postgender

is that beyond is the unknown while postgender is (rare) a person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.

As a preposition beyond

is further away than.

As an adverb beyond

is farther along or away.

As an adjective postgender is

(having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.

beyond

English

Preposition

(English prepositions)
  • Further away than.
  • On the far side of.
  • Later than; after.
  • Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass.
  • :
  • In addition to.
  • Past, or out of reach of.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Moldova 0-5 England , passage=England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.}}

    See also

    * para-

    Synonyms

    * ayond * ayont

    Antonyms

    * before * earlier

    Derived terms

    * beyond a reasonable doubt * beyond compare * beyond doubt * beyond one's ken * beyond question * beyond recognition * beyond the black stump * beyond the pale

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Farther along or away.
  • In addition; more.
  • Synonyms

    * ayond, ayont (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The unknown.
  • The hereafter.
  • Derived terms

    * back of beyond * great beyond

    Statistics

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    postgender

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (Having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.
  • * 2007 , Helen Boyd, She's not the man I married: my life with a transgender husband , page 192:
  • Gay and lesbian folks don't have a corner on the market — of course there are straight people who think about gender — but odds were better that our gay and lesbian friends were going to be a little more postgender in their thinking, [...]
  • * 2010 , Alice Adams, Shameless propositions: women's sexuality and theoretical authority , page 139:
  • Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.
  • (of a marriage or couple) Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.
  • * 2002 , Adie Nelson, Barrie Robinson, Gender in Canada , page 455:
  • Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.

    Synonyms

    * posttraditional

    Antonyms

    * pregender

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.
  • * 2001 , Joseph Slade, Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide , volume 2, page 373:
  • Contributors to Posthuman Bodies, edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, offer futuristic looks at "queers," trans-genders, postgenders , and automated teller machines,
  • * 2001 Jan Wickman, Transgender politics: the construction and deconstruction of binary gender in the Finnish transgender community , page 204:
  • Similarly, there will be all sorts of individuals among trans-people too: we are not represented by transsexuals only, there are transvestites, transgenders, genderblenders, postgenders etc. in our midst.

    Usage notes

    * See the usage note at transsexual regarding the use of this word as a noun.

    See also

    * postgenderism * transgender, postsexual, transsexual * androgyny