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Posttraditional is a synonym of postgender.


As an adjective postgender is

(having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.

As a noun postgender is

(rare) a person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.

posttraditional

Not English

Posttraditional has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'posttraditional':

posterolateral, piezotransducer, pectoriloquial, posteroanterior

postgender

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (Having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.
  • * 2007 , Helen Boyd, She's not the man I married: my life with a transgender husband , page 192:
  • Gay and lesbian folks don't have a corner on the market — of course there are straight people who think about gender — but odds were better that our gay and lesbian friends were going to be a little more postgender in their thinking, [...]
  • * 2010 , Alice Adams, Shameless propositions: women's sexuality and theoretical authority , page 139:
  • Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.
  • (of a marriage or couple) Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.
  • * 2002 , Adie Nelson, Barrie Robinson, Gender in Canada , page 455:
  • Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.

    Synonyms

    * posttraditional

    Antonyms

    * pregender

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.
  • * 2001 , Joseph Slade, Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide , volume 2, page 373:
  • Contributors to Posthuman Bodies, edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, offer futuristic looks at "queers," trans-genders, postgenders , and automated teller machines,
  • * 2001 Jan Wickman, Transgender politics: the construction and deconstruction of binary gender in the Finnish transgender community , page 204:
  • Similarly, there will be all sorts of individuals among trans-people too: we are not represented by transsexuals only, there are transvestites, transgenders, genderblenders, postgenders etc. in our midst.

    Usage notes

    * See the usage note at transsexual regarding the use of this word as a noun.

    See also

    * postgenderism * transgender, postsexual, transsexual * androgyny