#gravinous

Gravinous: Any non-neutral gender or quality. Gravinosity is the noun form.

Gravinous genders can include any non-neutral genders such as male, female, androgyne, maverique, ilyagender, péragender, xenine, and agender. Gravinous qualities would include masculine, feminine, androgynous, outherine, maverine, xenine, and null. Particular aporinities would apply here as well.

Gravinous comes from the Latin gravis meaning "heavy." It implies a strongly felt gender or a gender that leans toward or away from a given quality (as opposed to neutral, which is not meant to lean toward any specific quality and can often feel like it sits in the middle of genders or qualities.)

The name was inspired by this page on the Wiki Diversidades (Diversities Wiki in Portuguese.) The second line describes a spectrum of neutrality from neutrois to demineutrois/neutral to "saturated" gender. The use of "saturated" here is fascinating to me because in my brain, it denotes a sort of "weight" or "heaviness" to a gender. I wanted to encompass that idea in this term's naming.

The flag uses bold colors that don't represent anything specific, but pull away from the typical greens and yellows you might see in niaspec flags. It also does not include gray for the same reason. The "heaviness" of gravinosity is reflected in how dark and saturated a lot of the colors are, calling back to the Wiki Diversidades.

Gravinous is a word I coined for genders, qualities, aspects, and alignments that are not neutral because I needed a word that could help me discuss my own relationship with neutrality compared to non-neutralities. Another way to refer to this quality is non-neutral, which I’ve often used in conversations about maverine identities and similar. But what does it mean to have a gender that is not neutral? Why do people align with gravinosity?

There are tons of genders out there that are gravinous: Man, woman, maverique, ilyagender, all other outherine genders, and both androgynous genders and aporagenders if they’re specifically not neutral.

How do we define gender neutrality? Typically, neutrality refers to two main aspects: Being unaligned with masculinity and femininity, or having a lack of genderedness or alignment in general. What comes to mind are genders like neutrois, epicene, and agender. Gravinous has none of the aforementioned aspects found in these genders.

Neutrality has quite a few different uses as a term because it goes beyond being a gender term. Below are some common definitions of neutrality and how gravinosity contrasts with them.

Belonging to neither kind; not one thing or the other; indefinite.

Gravinous has no recognition of a dichotomy and cannot be compared to any binary. Gravinous genders aren’t meant to draw comparisons to the binary or be defined by their relationship to a binary, as there is none. Gravinosities lack ambiguity and thus are explicit, not indefinite.

Not decided or pronounced as to characteristics; or: having features or characteristics that are not easily noticed.

Gravinosity is assured, with readily noticeable and obvious characteristics. It is also unambiguous. Again, gravinous genders and qualities are not ambiguous, unknown, or vague. Genders like maverique are distinctly not ambiguous and many have a strong sense of gender, which makes them very clear and straightforward in their genderedness.

Not causing or reflecting a change in something.

Gravinosity is active and acts on other part of one's gender. Non-neutrality is not a passive quality and can influence the rest of one’s gender.

Unaligned.

Gravinosity often has an alignment. Maverinities are a type of gravinous quality that are “strongly gendered”, with an alignment to an assured gender. In this context, “unaligned” refers to the original coining of stellarian: Unaligned with the binary or rejecting alignment altogether.