feminine vs gender
gender vs femininefeminine and gender both are nouns.
feminine is an adjective but gender is not an adjective.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| feminine | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| gender | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
gender is a hypernym of
feminine; that is, gender is a
word with a broader meaning than feminine:
- feminine: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
- gender: a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
Other hypernyms of feminine include
grammatical gender.
| feminine (noun) | gender (noun) |
|---|---|
| a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female | the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
| a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness |
| feminine (adjective) | gender (adjective) |
|---|---|
| associated with women and not with men | |
| female (of grammatical gender) | |
| befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | |
| (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable |
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