'Epicene' definitions:
Definition of 'epicene'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having an ambiguous sexual identity [syn: bisexual, epicene]
adjective
Having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy]
noun
One having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made [syn: hermaphrodite, intersex, gynandromorph, androgyne, epicene, epicene person]
Definition of 'Epicene'
From: GCIDE
- Epicene \Ep"i*cene\, a. & n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. ?; fr. 'epi` + ? common; cf. F. ['e]pic[`e]ne.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. [1913 Webster]
- The literary prigs epicene. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster]
- He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman. --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster]