Gender vs. Neuter — What's the Difference?

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.

Neither masculine nor feminine in 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

Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs.

(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.

Having undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs

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.

Having pistils and stamens that are nonfunctional or absent.

The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category

Castrated or spayed. Used of animals.

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.

Androgynous or asexual.

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

(Archaic) Taking no side in a dispute; neutral.

Females or males considered as a group

The neuter gender.

To engender.

A neuter word.

(obsolete) Class; kind.

A neuter noun.

(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.

An androgynous or asexual person.

Sex a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.

A castrated animal.

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.

An insect that has undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs, such as a worker bee.

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(Archaic) One that is neutral in a dispute.

(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).

To castrate or spay.

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

To render ineffective or powerless

(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.

Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

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

(grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.

(archaic) To engender.

(grammar) Intransitive.

To breed.

(biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.

(literary) Sexless, nonsexual.

Kind; sort.

(biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

Sex, male or female.

A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

(grammar) The neuter gender.

To beget; to engender.

(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

To copulate; to breed.

(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

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

To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;

To rid of sexuality.

Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; - in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.

A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

Remove the ovaries of;

Of grammatical gender;

Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs