Kenochoric

Kenochoric is a broad umbrella term centered around kenopsia; the eerie atmosphere of a place that's has been abandoned. It is also often used as a gender of it's own. It is not inherently a part of any other umbrella (with some not even identifying as nonbinary), but some may identify with xenogender, aesthetigender, and others alongside it. Kenochoric itself may be aligned, with examples being kenomasc, kenofem, and kenofluid.

Kenochoric has a small list of characteristics, which go into more depth on the Carrd:


 * A connection to things like liminal spaces, voids, darkness, vast concepts (ocean, space, etc.), distortion, or similar.
 * A lonely, empty, eerie, or melancholy feeling.
 * Some kind of disconnect from gender. This can mean genderlessness, an empty or absent feeling, gender apathy, a distortion of one's gender, or just a general disconnect.
 * An unstable, hard to define, hard to name, or generally "unstable" relationship with gender.
 * A strange, nostalgic, foggy, wistful, etc. feeling.
 * A sense that one's gender is not human, or that it is unable to be defined with human definitions (or any definitions).

Kenochoric Genders
Popular kenochoric genders include neagender, astromonique, liminalgender, backroomic, genderstalgia, and many others. All kenochoric genders can be found either within the Carrd, or within the kenochoric archive.

There is a galactian alignment for kenochoric, called voidrian. The term KEIN (kenochoric-in-nature) was also coined, for all identities that have kenochoric characteristics, are kenochoric-aligned (kenic), or otherwise.

Flag
The kenochoric flag was made by Tumblr user kenochoric on November 18, 2020.

The stripes have the following meanings:


 * Black: Void, absence, emptiness, and darkness
 * Dark purple: Disconnect with gender, obscurity and a difficulty to properly define itself
 * Purple: Vast concepts and places, such as oceans and deep space.
 * Light purple: Liminal spaces, transitional spaces, the "boundary" between what was and what is.

Kenochoric also has a Carrd made by the creator, with flags for each identity under it.

Etymology
The term kenochoric stems from the word kenopsia. Kenopsia is an eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people, but is now abandoned. It can also be loosely tied back to the word choric, which refers to a chorus, something that may be a part of a kenochoric persons' aesthetics. It was originally called kenocoric, but was changed because kenopsiacore does not currently exist.