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Sexist vs Gendered - What's the difference?

sexist | gendered |

As a noun sexist

is sexist (person).

As a verb gendered is

(gender).

As an adjective gendered is

(linguistics|of a language) having grammatical gender.

sexist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.
  • Robert and Jessica both lost all respect for their father when they found him to be sexist .

    Derived terms

    * non-sexist * non-sexist language * sexist language

    See also

    * ableist * bigot * bigotry * chauvinism * chauvinist * misandry * misandric * misogynist * discrimination * heterosexist * homophobe * homophobic * -ist * racist

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    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...