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bisexual | genderfluid |

As a noun bisexual

is bisexual.

As an adjective genderfluid is

not conforming to fixed gender roles.

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

    *

    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

    * ----

    genderfluid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
  • * 2009 , Julia Serano, Whipping Girl (page 346)
  • Another way that one can be “transgressively gendered” is by identifying as genderqueer or genderfluid —i.e., refusing to identify fully as either woman or man.
  • * 2011 , Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users (page 29)
  • A slightly newer term, genderqueer is also often used by people who believe they are genderfluid , who feel like both genders, who will sometimes feel male, sometimes female, or who may not believe that there are only two genders.

    Derived terms

    * genderfluidity