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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unisex
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unisex clothing
▪ a unisex toilet
▪ He prefers having his hair cut in a unisex salon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even such popular futurists as Alvin and Heidi Toffler generally subsume women into a homogeneous, unisex future.
▪ These unisex suede shoes were introduced in 1986 as a technical shoe for skateboarders.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unisex

"sexually indistinguishable or neutral," 1968, from uni- + sex (n.).

Wiktionary
unisex

a. 1 Designed to be suitable for both sexes. 2 Not distinguished on the basis of sex.

WordNet
unisex

adj. not distinguished on the basis of sex

Wikipedia
Unisex

Unisex refers to things that are not gender-specific, being suitable for any gender, but can also be another term for gender-blindness.

The term was coined in the 1960s and was used fairly informally. Though the combining form uni- is from the Latin unus meaning one, the term seems to have been influenced by words such as united and universal where the uni- prefix takes on the sense of shared. In this sense, it can be seen as meaning shared by both sexes.

Hair stylists and beauty salons that serve both men and women are often referred to as unisex. This is also typical of other services and products that had traditionally been separated by the sexes, such as clothing shops or beauty products. A facility that is usually sex segregated but is not so designated may be referred to as unisex, such as a public toilet. Unisex clothing includes garments like T-shirts; versions of other garments may be tailored for the different fits depending on one's sex, such as jeans. The sharing of a pool, beach or other water or recreational facility by swimmers and others of both sexes is commonly referred to as mixed bathing. When a school admits students of both sexes, it may be called coeducational or a mixed-sex school.

Usage examples of "unisex".

There was just the one, unisex, and it really was a bathroom because it had a bathtub in it.

The honey-pot industry was one place Anna was against unisex application.

Look what the unisex movement of the late sixties and early seventies brought us.

They made their way down a long hall and through double doors into what looked like a cross between a modern health club and a unisex beauty parlor.

I dried myself off and then pulled on one of the two unisex robes provided by the hotel.

It was a unisex restroom, as signified by the side-by-side silhouettes of a man and woman on the door.

Loraine hesitated only for a moment, however, before disappearing into the cramped unisex toilet room.

As I drove by, I saw a unisex person, approximately twelve years of age, sitting on the doorsill in ragged cutoffs, hair in dreadlocks, finger up its nose, apparently mining the contents.

She was wearing unisex black cotton pants and a black blouse buttoned over the neck, black boots, belt, coat -- homeless chic -- and she looked good.

On Earth, in its pollutions, surrounded by its crippled males and frustrated women, exposed to its antibiological education and conditionings, subjected to the perversions of unisex, denying their sexuality in its fullness to both sexes, the nature of the emptiness in my life, and its causes, had been, in effect, concealed from me.

Since she had seen no females in the Anthill, it was probable that the Unisex program was designed to provide the complex with a stable population of organ donors.