GENDER IDENTITY

Pronunciation (US):

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gender identity mean? 

• GENDER IDENTITY (noun)
  The noun GENDER IDENTITY has 1 sense:

1. your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence

  Familiarity information: GENDER IDENTITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENDER IDENTITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("gender identity" is a kind of...):

identity; individuality; personal identity (the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity)

 Context examples 

"We set out to test this in the real world. These systems don't know any other language but male or female, so for many gender identities it is not possible for them to be correct."

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)

A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner.

(Paraphrenia, NCI Thesaurus)