genderlessadj.

1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 800/2 The genderless character of the English language..gives it a higher prominence and relief when the appropriate diction of personification comes to be employed.

1873 W. H. I. Bleek Sci. Reasons Study Bushman Lang. in Cape Monthly Mag. Sept. 150 The question now is, with regard to this great bulk of genderless languages, whether they have stripped off the grammatical genders,..or whether they never possessed any.

1899 Daily News 3 July For good or ill, our tongue is becoming a World-language... Its genderless and uninflected condition..is now discovered to be its glory.

1918 J. Fernald Expressive Eng. 193 I and thou, we and you, are genderless.

1940 M. M. Bryant & J. R. Aiken Psychol. of Eng. 42 The first phrase of the Lord's Prayer, ‘Our Father which art’, exemplifies the former genderless or undifferentiated usage, the pronouns having been used interchangeably up to the seventeenth century.

2008 R. Blount Alphabet Juice 268 I don't feel right about replacing the overinclusive male pronoun with the nonsensical genderless plural.

1869 Amer. Jrnl. Numismatics Sept. 39 Instead of the head of the genderless beast before him,..let him imagine the head of a noble Arabian steed.

1894 H. D. Northrop Flowery Kingdom xxvii. 458/2 Though pines are genderless, fancy has ascribed to the black-trunked tree a masculine gender, and to the lighter a feminine.

1928 Winnipeg Free Press 5 July 1/5 Mrs Goode's advocacy of her claim to attend the governor's levee rests in the reasonable supposition that the office she holds is genderless.

1969 Life 12 Dec. 78/1 Before the baby was born, they chose a name they felt was genderless.

2006 N.Y. Times 8 Oct. (T Style Mag.) 56/2 It [sc. the perfume] is daring and subtle and refreshingly genderless.