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Terms vs Tumtum - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and tumtum

is that terms is while tumtum is (jewish|slang) one whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.

Hermaphrodite vs Tumtum - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hermaphrodite and tumtum

is that hermaphrodite is an individual or organism possessing ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads while tumtum is (jewish|slang) one whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.

As an adjective hermaphrodite

is having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.

Androgynous vs Tumtum - What's the difference?

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As an adjective androgynous

is possessing the sex organs of both sexes.

As a noun tumtum is

one whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.

Genitalia vs Tumtum - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between genitalia and tumtum

is that genitalia is (genitals or sex organs) while tumtum is (jewish|slang) one whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.

Gender vs Tumtum - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between gender and tumtum

is that gender is a division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate while tumtum is one whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.

As a verb gender

is to assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.