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See also: nonbinary

English

A flag with four equal-sized horizontal stripes colored yellow, white, purple and black.
Non-binary pride flag (adjective sense 2)

Alternative forms

  • nonbinary

Etymology

From non- +‎ binary. Used in reference to gender since at least 1990.

Pronunciation

  • (General American, without the cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /nɔnˈbaɪ.nɛɹ.i/, /nɔnˈbaɪ.nɚ.i/
  • (General American, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /nɑnˈbaɪ.nɛɹ.i/, /nɑnˈbaɪ.nɚ.i/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌnɒnˈbaɪ.nɛɹ.ɪ/, /ˌnɒnˈbaɪ.nə.ɹɪ/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

non-binary (not comparable)

  1. Not binary.
    • 1986, James O. Hicks, Information Systems in Business: An Introduction, page 201:
      Thus digital computers operate directly with digits either at the bit level, which is short for binary digit, or at the byte level where a nonbinary digit such as a decimal number or alphabetic character is represented.
    • 2002, Terry L. M. Bartelt, Digital Electronics: An Integrated Laboratory Approach, page 112:
      The most common type of encoder is one that converts a nonbinary number system into an equivalent binary system.
  2. Having or pertaining to a gender identity not represented by the gender binary; not exclusively male or female; genderqueer.
    Antonyms: binary, gender-binary
    Hyponyms: demiboy, demigirl
    • 2013, Kim Cook, “This thing called gender”, in Up Close and Personal, page 85:
      I'm expected to live in a world where […] forms have no or few options for non-binary people, where finding a GP who understands my non-binary needs and identity is a challenge.
    • 2017, Jo Green, The Trans Partner Handbook: A Guide for When Your Partner Transitions, →ISBN:
      [T]he most commonly used non-binary pronouns are the singular “they/their/theirs”.

Usage notes

  • The solid form is more than twice as common as the hyphenated one in the American corpus while the hyphenated one wins by factor 3 or more in the British corpus.[1]
  • The U.S. Government Publishing Office Style Manual item 6.29 recommends to spell non- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.[2]

Derived terms

  • non-binariness
  • non-binarity
  • nyan-binary

Translations

of a digit, number system, etc: not binary
  • Afrikaans: niebinêr
  • Asturian: non binariu
  • Catalan: no-binari (ca)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 非二進制 / 非二进制 (fēi èrjìnzhì)
  • Czech: nebinární
  • Dutch: non-binair (nl)
  • Esperanto: neduuma
  • Finnish: muunsukupuolinen (fi), ei-binäärinen
  • French: non-binaire (fr)
  • Galician: non-binarie
  • Georgian: არაბინარული (arabinaruli)
  • German: nichtbinär (de), zwischengeschlechtlich (de)
  • Interlingua: non binari
  • Irish: neamhdhénártha
  • Italian: non-binario m, non-binaria f
  • Macedonian: недвоичен m (nedvoičen), небинарен m (nebinaren)
  • Polish: niebinarny (pl)
  • Portuguese: não binário m, não binária f
  • Spanish: no binario (es)
  • Swedish: icke-binär (sv)
  • Welsh: anneuaidd (cy)
outside the gender binary — see also genderqueer
  • Afrikaans: niebinêr
  • Arabic: لَاثُنَائِيّ m (lāṯunāʔiyy)
  • Azerbaijani: qeyri-binar
  • Catalan: no-binari (ca)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 非二元 (fēi'èryuán)
  • Danish: nonbinær
  • Dutch: non-binair (nl), niet-binair, nonbinair
  • Esperanto: neduuma
  • Finnish: muunsukupuolinen (fi), muusu (colloquial)
  • French: non-binaire (fr)
  • Galician: non binario m, non binaria f
  • German: nichtbinär (de), nicht-binär, nonbinär (de), divers (de), diversgeschlechtlich (de)
  • Greek: μη-δυαδικό (mi-dyadikó)
  • Hungarian: nembináris
  • Icelandic: kynsegin
  • Indonesian: nonbiner, non-biner
  • Interlingua: non binari
  • Irish: neamhdhénártha
  • Italian: non-binario m, non-binarie
  • Japanese: Xジェンダー (ekkusu-jendā)
  • Korean: 논바이너리 (nonbaineori)
  • Macedonian: вонроден m (vonroden)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: ikke-binær
    Nynorsk: ikkje-binær
  • Polish: niebinarny (pl)
  • Portuguese: não binárie (pt) n, não binário m, não binária f
  • Romanian: nebinar, non-binar
  • Russian: небина́рный (ru) m (nebinárnyj)
  • Spanish: no binario (es), no binarie, no binarix
  • Swedish: icke-binär (sv)
  • Tamil: இருமையின்மை (irumaiyiṉmai)
  • Ukrainian: ґендерквірний m (genderkvirnyj), ґендерквірна f (genderkvirna), ґендерквірнуй c (genderkvirnuj), ґендерквір c (genderkvir)
  • Vietnamese: phi nhị nguyên giới (非二元界), phi nhị giới (非二界)
  • Welsh: anneuaidd (cy)
  • Yiddish: ניטצווײיִק (nittsveyik)

See also

  • intergender
  • intersex
  • unisex

Noun

non-binary (plural non-binaries)

  1. (computing) Something which is not a binary; a computer file that is not readable text.
    • 1994 June 7, "Zhar", Don't Post Non-Binaries In alt.binaries.doom, alt.games.doom, Usnet:
      Please don't post non-binaries into alt.binaries.doom. Pretty please.
  2. (informal) A non-binary (genderqueer) person.
    Synonyms: enby, NB, (sometimes derogatory) they/them
    Hyponyms: demiboy, demigirl
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:non-binary.

Usage notes

  • See the usage note at transgender regarding the use of words of this type as nouns.

References

  1. ^ “[non - binary]/nonbinary”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
  2. ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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