- gender, grammatical 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
--1 is a kind of grammatical category, syntactic category
--1 has particulars: feminine; masculine; neuter - sex, gender, sexuality - the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
--2 is a kind of physiological property
--2 has particulars:maleness, masculinity; androgyny, hermaphroditism, bisexuality; femaleness, feminineness