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Gendered vs Gendering - What's the difference?

gendered | gendering |

As verbs the difference between gendered and gendering

is that gendered is past tense of gender while gendering is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective gendered

is having grammatical gender.

As a noun gendering is

the assignment of gender to something or somebody.

gendered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gender)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (linguistics, of a language) Having grammatical gender.
    • Grammatically, Hebrew is a gendered language because every noun is either masculine or feminine.
  • Pertaining to gender or having attributes due to gender.
    • His clothes were highly gendered .
  • Divided by gender.
    • In the past, parenting was a more gendered activity with more distinct male and female roles.
  • (archaic) engendered
  • * 1662 , , Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 11:
    • "...or some hidden Spermatick power has gendered these both Anchors'', ''Urnes'', ''Coins'', and ''Sculls in the ground...

    gendering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The assignment of gender to something or somebody.
  • * 2002 , Jane Gallop, Anecdotal Theory (page 25)
    • Each of these genderings of the pedagogical relation specifically and profoundly inflects the question of authority.