Having a gender identity that is different from one's birth-assigned sex; synonymous with transgender.
Its antonym is homogender, which is synonymous with cisgender.
From the Greek prefix hetero-, meaning "different", and gender. Coined as a complementary word to "homogender", which was coined because some homogender people object to the term "cisgender". It remains to be seen whether these terms will be accepted.
Not every heterogender person knows their gender from birth. As a child, I didn't use to think I was a girl, but I was uncomfortable with looking like a boy and playing with other boys. I felt much more comfortable in the company of girls. It was only in adulthood that I realized what that had meant, and now I'm a proud heterogender woman.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”