genderfluid
See also: gender-fluid
English
WOTD – 19 October 2025
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adjective
genderfluid (not comparable)
- (LGBTQ) Not having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.
- 2009, Julia Serano, Whipping Girl, page 346:
- Another way that one can be "transgressively gendered" is by identifying as genderqueer or genderfluid—i.e., refusing to identify fully as either woman or man.
- 2011, Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users, page 29:
- A slightly newer term, genderqueer […] is also often used by people who believe they are genderfluid, who feel like both genders, who will sometimes feel male, sometimes female, or who may not believe that there are only two genders.
- 2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:
- For example, "queer" would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the "opposite sex," sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.
- 2020 October 28, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020:
- "I'm genderfluid! Sometimes a guy, sometimes a girl. Sometimes, I guess, confused shrug? Anyway, I have a spell that lets me change my default form, so my feminine form is not an enchantment."
Synonyms
- fluid (rare)
- genderflux
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
not conforming to fixed gender
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Noun
genderfluid (plural genderfluids)
- (rare) A genderfluid person.
See also
German
Etymology
Borrowed from English genderfluid, interpreted as Gender + fluid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛndɐfluˌiːt/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndɐˌfluːɪt/
Adjective
genderfluid (strong nominative masculine singular genderfluider, not comparable)
- genderfluid
- 2025 December 27, Annina Metz, “Kleidung für Männer, Frauen und alle dazwischen”, in Der Spiegel[1], →ISSN:
- Designer Jonas Stickann macht »genderfluide« Mode, um die Welt zwischen den Geschlechtern auszuloten. Das weicht gesellschaftliche Grenzen auf und provoziert Kommentare. Aber verkauft es sich auch?
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Declension
Positive forms of genderfluid (uncomparable)
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist genderfluid | sie ist genderfluid | es ist genderfluid | sie sind genderfluid | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | genderfluider | genderfluide | genderfluides | genderfluide |
| genitive | genderfluiden | genderfluider | genderfluiden | genderfluider | |
| dative | genderfluidem | genderfluider | genderfluidem | genderfluiden | |
| accusative | genderfluiden | genderfluide | genderfluides | genderfluide | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der genderfluide | die genderfluide | das genderfluide | die genderfluiden |
| genitive | des genderfluiden | der genderfluiden | des genderfluiden | der genderfluiden | |
| dative | dem genderfluiden | der genderfluiden | dem genderfluiden | den genderfluiden | |
| accusative | den genderfluiden | die genderfluide | das genderfluide | die genderfluiden | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein genderfluider | eine genderfluide | ein genderfluides | (keine) genderfluiden |
| genitive | eines genderfluiden | einer genderfluiden | eines genderfluiden | (keiner) genderfluiden | |
| dative | einem genderfluiden | einer genderfluiden | einem genderfluiden | (keinen) genderfluiden | |
| accusative | einen genderfluiden | eine genderfluide | ein genderfluides | (keine) genderfluiden | |
Further reading
- “genderfluid” in Duden online
- “genderfluid” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache