Kenochoric refers to an umbrella term that is centered around the idea of kenopsia: the eerie atmosphere of a place that has been abandoned. It is a broad label with many different variations and traits, ranging from eerie, lonely, and vast, to unstable, genderless, and nostalgic, among other things. While kenochoric is an umbrella term, it can be used as a gender on its own. It can be used alongside other terms, and it could have an alignment of its own, with genders like kenomasc, kenofem, kenofluid,^[1] kenovir, kenoera, and kenoavire.^[2]

Kenochoric is its own, separate category of gender, rather than a subcategory of another one. It is not a subcategory of xenogender, or any other category. While xenogenders, aesthetigenders, etc. may fall under the kenochoric umbrella, kenochoric is its own thing with many variations in experiences. There is no necessary prerequisite or existing label one must meet in order to fall under kenochoric.

The term for kenochoric-in-nature is KEIN, kenochoric quality (similar to feminine, xenine, and masculine) is called kenoine or kenous (with the noun form being kenosity^[3]), and kenochoric alignment is referred to as kenic (or voidrian if one wishes to use the galactian alignments).^[4]

Kenochoric can generally be classified with the following traits:

• 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).

In depth explanations of these definitions can be found on the kenochoric Carrd. Users may identify with just one of these traits, some of these traits, or all of them. The coiner has also stated that it is okay if someone considers themself kenochoric while not perfectly fitting under its definition.^[5]