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unisex
Sign in to savethumb| upright=0.3|Unisex icon Unisex is an adjective indicating something is not sex-specific, i.e. is suitable for any type of sex. The term can also mean sex blindness or gender neutrality.
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Examples
- Unisex gender-neutral style
- Historical development
- Concept of unisex
- Cosmetics and grooming
- Social constructs around unisex
- Unisex clothing and school uniform policies
- Unisex apparel
- School uniform policies
- Impact on physical activity
- Gender inclusive and unisex uniform policy
- See also
- References
thumb| upright=0.3|Unisex icon Unisex is an adjective indicating something is not sex-specific, i.e. is suitable for any type of sex. The term can also mean sex blindness or gender neutrality.
The term 'unisex' was coined in the 1960s and was used fairly informally. The combining prefix uni- is from Latin unus, meaning one or single. However, 'unisex' seems to have been influenced by words such as united and universal, in which uni- takes the related sense shared. Unisex then means shared by sexes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “unisex” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.