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gender vs androgyny

androgyny vs gender

gender and androgyny both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
gender Yes No No No
androgyny Yes No No No
As nouns, androgyny is a hyponym of gender; that is, androgyny is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gender:
  • gender: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
  • androgyny: showing characteristics of both sexes
Other hyponyms of gender include maleness, masculinity, bisexuality, hermaphroditism, femaleness, feminineness.
gender (noun) androgyny (noun)
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles showing characteristics of both sexes
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
Difference between gender and androgyny

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