// adj. In a language with a gender system showing a correlation with sex, denoting a noun which has an invariable gender but which can take referents of either sex. In French, for example, écrivain ‘writer’, témoin...

Noun which can refer to both male and female entities without changing its grammatical gender, e.g. Ger. die Ratte ‘the rat’ (grammatical feminine), Span. el pájaro ‘the bird’ (grammatical...

Gender-neutral, gender-inclusive or epicene pronouns are pronouns that neither reveal nor imply the gender or the sex of a person. Androgynous pronouns are pronouns that can refer to neither or both genders. All languages allow the speaker to specify...