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Gender vs. Genre — What's the Difference?

Gender vs. Genre — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Gender and Genre

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Gender

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, femininity and masculinity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex, sex-based social structures (i.e., gender roles), or gender identity.

Genre

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Gender

Either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female
Someone of the opposite gender
Everyone always asks which gender I identify as
A condition that affects people of both genders

Genre

A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content
"his six String Quartets ... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's" (Time).

Gender

(in languages such as Latin, French, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections which they have and which they require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex.
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Genre

A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.

Gender

A grammatical category, often designated as male, female, or neuter, used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.

Genre

A type or class
"Emaciated famine victims ... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent" (Helen Kitchen).

Gender

The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category
Agreement in gender, number, and case.

Genre

A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.

Gender

Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, by which most organisms are classified on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions; sex.

Genre

Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature.
French drama was lisping or still inarticulate; the great French genre of the fabliau was hardly born.
A particular demand . . . that we shall pay special attention to the matter of genres - that is, to the different forms or categories of literature.

Gender

One's identity as female or male or as neither entirely female nor entirely male.

Genre

A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

Gender

Females or males considered as a group
Students lined up with the genders in different lines.

Genre

A kind of literary or artistic work

Gender

To engender.

Genre

A style of expressing yourself in writing

Gender

(obsolete) Class; kind.

Genre

An expressive style of music

Gender

(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.

Genre

A class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique

Gender

Sex a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
The gene is activated in both genders
The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.

Gender

Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. Compare gender role, gender identity.

Gender

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Gender

(hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).

Gender

An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

Gender

(sociology) 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.

Gender

(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

Gender

(archaic) To engender.

Gender

To breed.

Gender

Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.
This song is so gender.

Gender

Kind; sort.

Gender

Sex, male or female.

Gender

A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects.

Gender

To beget; to engender.

Gender

To copulate; to breed.

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

Gender

The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;
She didn't want to know the sex of the foetus

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