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Genderfluid vs Fluid - What's the difference?

genderfluid | fluid |

As an adjective genderfluid

is not conforming to fixed gender roles.

As a noun fluid is

fluid.

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

    fluid

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia fluid)
  • (physics) Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
  • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid , which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

    Derived terms

    * amber fluid * brake fluid * fluid mechanics

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
  • In a state of flux; subject to change.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
  • (of an asset) Convertible into cash.