enby
adjective
- non-binary: outside or beyond the gender binary; not exclusively male or female
noun
- a non-binary person: someone who is outside or beyond the gender binary, not exclusively male or female
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɛnbi/
adj
Etymology: The noun is a pronunciation spelling of NB, an initialism of non-binary. The word was coined by the Tumblr user “revolutionator” in 2013 as “an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls”: see the quotation. The adjective is derived from the noun.
- Pronunciation spelling of NB (“non-binary; having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or male, that is, outside of the gender binary”).
“For non-binary-identified (or, to use my current favourite term, enby) people, this is magnified by the fact that while most of everyone except Germaine Greer and Donald Trump are prepared to recognise that trans people do exist these days, the enby population is still struggling up that hill with our glitter in the one hand and our neckties in the other.”
“You've campaigned for non-binary and gender non-conforming people at Newcastle for a while now, including winning Campaign of the Year last year for your Beyond The Binary Week when you served as Marginalised Genders Officer, and appearing on BBC3's web shows. Would you consider yourself an enby BNOC [big name on campus]?”
noun
Etymology: The noun is a pronunciation spelling of NB, an initialism of non-binary. The word was coined by the Tumblr user “revolutionator” in 2013 as “an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls”: see the quotation. The adjective is derived from the noun.
- Pronunciation spelling of NB (“a non-binary person; a person whose gender identity is not strictly female or male; one who is outside of the gender binary”).
“i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls / nb / enby / enbies”
“I doubt most wedding fair vendors would recognise an enby even if you carried an explanatory sign.”