Epicene

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Belonging to or having the characteristics of both the male and the female: an epicene statue.
  • adj. Effeminate; unmanly.
  • adj. Sexless; neuter.
  • adj. Linguistics Having only one form of the noun for both the male and the female.
  • n. One that is epicene.
  • n. Linguistics An epicene word.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine
  • adj. effeminate (male with unusually strong female characteristics)
  • adj. androgynous, hermaphrodite (having both male and female characteristics)
  • adj. asexual (having neither male nor female characteristics)
  • adj. having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents
  • n. A hermaphrodite person or other creature
  • n. An effeminate person
  • n. An epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms.
  • n. An epicene object
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective-and-noun. 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.
  • adjective-and-noun. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Belonging to or including both sexes: especially, in grammar, applied to nouns having only one form of gender to indicate animals of both sexes: thus, the Greek ο%35ϊς and Latin ovis, a sheep, are feminine words, whether applied to males or to females.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having an ambiguous sexual identity
  • n. one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
  • adj. having unsuitable feminine qualities
  • Equivalent
    androgynous    unmanly    unmanlike    unmanful   
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    common   
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    camp    unmanly    effeminate    androgynous    hermaphrodite    asexual    metrosexual   
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