What's the difference between androgynous and unisex?

Androgynous


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Androgynal

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nurses who enjoyed the field most were of the androgynous or masculine type and had high levels of self-esteem.
  • (2) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
  • (3) Those androgynous looks helped him play a resilient 1970s transvestite in Breakfast On Pluto, for example.
  • (4) Androgyny had a significant main effect on spatial ability, the more androgynous subjects being superior.
  • (5) He favoured tall, thin, androgynous-looking teenagers, many from London.
  • (6) Androgynous males most frequently identified with a nonstereotypic mother combining masculine and feminine qualities, whereas undifferentiated males more often identified with a stereotypically feminine mother (p less than .01).
  • (7) Sex-stereotyped women typically gave ratings similar to those given by androgynous women while sex-stereotyped men, when they differed from androgynous men, generally gave less positive ratings.
  • (8) Sexually androgynous alcoholics (N = 21), those able to affirm about themselves characteristics ordinarily attributed to both males and females, scored significantly lower on MMPI scales D, PD, PT, and SI and and higher on MA than a nonandrogynous group (N = 21) of alcoholics.
  • (9) The cover features the androgynous, skin-and-bones singer in an angular, narrow, cropped suit.
  • (10) The homosexual sample was "androgynous", and the heterosexual sample was highly "masculine sex typed," by definition (Bem, 1974).
  • (11) The relation between sex role self-concept (masculine, feminine, undifferentiated, and androgynous) and both relationship quality and dysfunctional relationship beliefs was examined in 370 monogamous partners who represented four types of couples (married, heterosexual cohabiting, gay, and lesbian).
  • (12) Lucky enough to catch him playing its songs at New York’s Ritz early in 1981, I was instantly won over by his thrilling talent and androgynous swagger.
  • (13) Rotary pursuit performance (time on target) and reminiscence data were collected for 113 androgynous and feminine men and women under massed or distributed practice conditions.
  • (14) On her own, Perkins tended to look game in her alert, coolly androgynous way, yet also a little lost, as if waiting for a prompt that wasn’t coming.
  • (15) Foxx explains that he changed his name to ensure better slots on the open-mic circuit, reasoning that female performers were usually called up first and that an androgynous tag might prove an advantage.
  • (16) A national sample of 131 male and 120 female therapists showed that male therapists tend to be sex-typed and female therapists are predominantly androgynous.
  • (17) In 20 women with marked androgynism or testosterone concentrations being suspected for a tumor blood samples were taken by selective retrograde catheterization of the ovarian and suprarenal veins via vena femoralis.
  • (18) Big Bang Facebook Twitter Pinterest Big Bang, stablemates of 2NE1 at the hugely successful label YG Entertainment, owe nothing to the accessible charm and androgynous features of your typical boyband.
  • (19) Elevated basal blood level of this enzyme cannot be regarded as a sufficiently reliable criterion in the differential diagnosis of the adrenal or ovarian origin of androgynism.
  • (20) However, masculine men did not differ from androgynous men in over-all corrugator response activity.

Unisex


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Doumar, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, ruled that Gloucester high school could force Grimm to use unisex bathrooms because Title IX “allows schools to maintain separate bathrooms based on sex as long as the bathrooms for each sex are comparable”, he wrote.
  • (2) Animals, transport and building-simulation were unisex, and if you really wanted to test the limits of female objectification, you could get a severed head with retractable hair.
  • (3) When identical (unisex) BMI cutpoints were used, results were the same; (RR = 2.4, P less than 0.05 for men; RR = 3.1, P less than 0.01 for women).
  • (4) At the start of his junior year, the school forced him to use standalone unisex bathrooms installed specifically for him .
  • (5) The appropriate physical assessment and anticipatory counseling relative to competitive sports, the age mix and the appropriateness of mixed sex and unisex participation are reviewed.
  • (6) In many newspapers, the checks and balances on owners and executives are weak – readers identify with their papers so strongly that, for instance, even Friday's publication of 12 pages of yellow journalism about obscure do-gooders who use unisex loos will not be enough to dent the Mail's sales.
  • (7) Vic Goddard washes his hands in Passmores' open-plan unisex toilet facilities.
  • (8) With the T-shirts, Hamnett showed padded white silk decontamination suits, generously cut, beautifully detailed parkas and trench coats, cropped jackets in heavy cotton, skirts that were straight and short or long, narrow and flared from round about knee level, unisex baggy slept-in trouser suits in dark denim.
  • (9) The primary sources of inconsistency are variation in the prevalence of heartworm infection among populations of dogs and the sensitivity of immunodiagnostic tests to various categories of heartworm infections (ie, patent, immune-mediated occult, unisex occult, and immature occult).
  • (10) He became editor in 2000 when Heat was struggling immediately after its launch and reinvented it as a unisex entertainment title and women's celebrity weekly that became a publishing sensation.
  • (11) Mixed sex twins tended to be lighter than unisex twins.
  • (12) Fundamental assumptions of the model are (1) that data treated in unisex fashion have the normal distribution required of Z-type statistics throughout the period of growth, and (2) that it is reasonable to consider anthropometric measurements in all populations (regardless of ultimate size) as growing toward the common height chosen for the phantom.
  • (13) These data indicate that unisex and sex-specific cutpoints for BMI identify the same sex-specific patterns of association between obesity and risk of NIDDM.
  • (14) A spokesperson for Next said its toy range, some of which was labelled "boys' stuff", had this year been branded under one unisex title, The Little Gift Co. "Our packaging designs, labelling and in-store signage was intended to help customers choose appropriate gifts last year; however, we realise that these classifications could be misleading," said the spokesperson.
  • (15) It's essentially unisex: the women's suits are simply men's in smaller sizes.
  • (16) Paoletti writes that during the heyday of unisex parenting, which lasted from 1965 to 1985, "pink was so strongly associated with traditional femininity that it was vehemently rejected by feminist parents for their daughters' clothing.
  • (17) They won’t even consider it a problem, lest it hamper the future careers of their children, Madison (unisex), Avery (unisex) or Hunter (also unisex).
  • (18) Newly developed "unisex" regression equations were developed with "dummy" coding of gender (i.e., 0 = female; 1 = male), age, height, weight, and various interactions.
  • (19) Moreover, application of the unisex phantom procedure to the Trois Rivières sample does little to clarify anticipated sex-related differences in regional growth, and it is argued that univariate standardization against a power function of an arbitrary adult height may not provide the best method of examining the multivariate problem of growth.
  • (20) The site contained information on subjects such as penis tucking, chest-binding and unisex school toilets, Shelton said, and until those references were removed parents would continue to be “misinformed” about Safe Schools by thinking it was purely about anti-bullying.