Definition of epicene Epicene

ep•i•cene

We found 15 definitions of epicene from 5 different sources.

What does epicene mean?

Adjective
epicene - having unsuitable feminine qualities
		effeminate, emasculate, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy
		unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly not possessing qualities befitting a man
epicene - having an ambiguous sexual identity
		bisexual
		androgynous having both male and female characteristics
Noun
epicene - one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
		hermaphrodite, intersex, gynandromorph, androgyne, epicene person
		bisexual, bisexual person a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes

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epicene (Noun)
A hermaphrodite person or other creature.
epicene (Noun)
An effeminate person.
epicene (Noun)
An epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms.
epicene (Noun)
An epicene object.
epicene (Adjective)
Lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine.
epicene (Adjective)
effeminate.
epicene (Adjective)
Having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents.

epicene (a. & n.)
Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
epicene (a. & n.)
Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

epicene
ep′i-sēn, adj. and n. common to both sexes: (gram.) of either gender. [Through L.,—Gr. epikoinos—epi, upon, koinos, common.]

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