Gender Trouble Glossary

Gender Trouble Glossary

Pervasive

Prevalent, Penetrating, Permeating (Adjective).

Viability

Feasibility, Achievability, Attainability

Contingent

Accidental, Fortuitous, Unforeseen (Adjective).

Subordination

Submission, Subservience, Servitude (Noun).

Hegemony

Dominance, Authority, Supremacy (Noun).

Consequential

Important, Significant, Momentous (Adjective).

Injunction

Order, Ruling, Instruction (Noun).

Genealogy

Ancestry, Pedigree, Lineage (Noun).

Ostensibly

Seemingly, Apparently, Outwardly (Adverb).

Inexorable

Relentless, Unstoppable, Unavoidable (Adjective).

Disparaged

Defamed, Traduced, Aspersed, Derogated (Adjective).

Disavow

Disclaim, Disconfirm, Disown (Verb).

Corporeality

Element, Material, Constituent (Noun).

Inadvertently

Unintentionally, Unwillingly, Accidentally (Adverb).

Assemblage

Gathering, Crowd, Congregation (Noun).

Divergence

Separation, Partition, Division, Bifurcation (Noun).

Tortuous

Twisted, Winding, Meandering (Adjective).

Intelligibility

Clarity, Lucidity, Readability (Adjective).

Entailment

Consequence, Ramification, Implication (Noun).

Proliferation

Accretion, Augmentation, Expansion (Noun).

Implicitly

Tacitly, Impliedly, Wordlessly (Adverb).

Postulation

Assumption, Presupposition, Hypothesis (Noun).

Dispensable

Gratuitous, Inessential, Unwarranted (Adjective).

Perpetuate

Continue, Maintain, Eternalize, Immortalize (Verb).

Repudiated

Discredited, Disgraced, Thrown out (Adjective).

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