Genderfluid vs Fluid - What's the difference?
genderfluid | fluid |
Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
* 2009 , Julia Serano, Whipping Girl (page 346)
* 2011 , Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users (page 29)
(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.
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, title=Not Just Going with the Flow
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(not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
In a state of flux; subject to change.
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, title= Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
(of an asset) Convertible into cash.
As an adjective genderfluid
is not conforming to fixed gender roles.As a noun fluid is
fluid.genderfluid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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
* genderfluidityfluid
English
Noun
(wikipedia fluid)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 mechanicsAdjective
(en adjective)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.}}