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Bisexual vs Bigender - What's the difference?

bisexual | bigender |

As a noun bisexual

is bisexual.

As an adjective bigender is

having two genders simultaneously, eg both male and female.

bisexual

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (sexuality, of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to members of two or more genders.
  • (botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
  • (botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
  • (botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
  • (botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
  • (rare) Hermaphroditic.
  • Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual .

    Hyponyms

    * heteroflexible

    Synonyms

    * (sexually attracted to persons of either sex) (slang), ambidextrous (jocular), bi (colloquial) * perfect, hermaphrodite * See also

    Coordinate terms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is bisexual. Someone who is attracted to people of two or more genders.
  • I have two family members who came out as bisexual ; my sister and my aunt.

    Synonyms

    * bi (colloquial) * See also

    Hypernyms

    *LGBT

    Also see

    * ----

    bigender

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having two genders simultaneously, e.g. both male and female.
  • Having a tendency to move between feminine and masculine gender-typed behaviour depending on context.
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