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Word: epicene (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • biology androgynous, hermaphrodite ? having both male and female characteristics;
  • biology asexual ? having neither male nor female characteristics;
  • effeminate ? male with unusually strong female characteristics;
  • lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine
  • linguistics having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents.

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Noun:

  • A hermaphrodite person or other creature
  • An effeminate person
  • An epicene object
  • An epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms.

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