Epicene

Word EPICENE
Character 7
Hyphenation ep i cene
Pronunciations /ˈɛpɪsiːn/

Definitions and meanings of "Epicene"

What do we mean by epicene?

Having characteristics of both sexes. adjective

Having characteristics traditionally ascribed to the other sex, especially as a male who is considered to be effeminate. adjective

Having no characteristics of either sex. adjective

Having only one form for both the male and the female. adjective

One that is epicene. noun

An epicene word. noun

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.

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.

Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

Lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine adjective

Effeminate (male with unusually strong female characteristics) adjective

Androgynous, hermaphrodite (having both male and female characteristics) adjective

Asexual (having neither male nor female characteristics) adjective

Having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents adjective

A hermaphrodite person or other creature noun

An effeminate person noun

An epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms. noun

An epicene object noun

Having an ambiguous sexual identity adjective

One having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made noun

An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class.

An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite.

(by extension) A transsexual; also, a transvestite.

(by extension, usually derogatory) An effeminate man.

An interesting term, now little used, that can refer to angrogyny, gender neutrality, bisexual attraction, or cross-gender identification. Urban Dictionary

1) Adj. Epicene can be used as a description to clarify that one does not have a sexual preference because someone who is epicene does not choose their mates based on their sex. An epicene is completely un-gender-biased. An epicene is not a bisexual (someone who is attracted to both sexes), instead they do not take gender into account at ALL, as they feel it is more important to have the correct personality match, rather than the correct plumbing. 2) An epicene is simultaniously used to describe someone whom you are unable to tell the gender of. Such as Pat from Saturday Night Live. Urban Dictionary

Adj. One who is bisexual. Urban Dictionary

A situation where you lose your girlfriend to the new guy but it turns out the new guy is into you instead. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Epicene

The word "epicene" in example sentences

His face was as much feminine as masculine, of that kind called epicene, and Carmine doubted that the double-sexed look would vanish as he grew older. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2009)

The kind of looks called epicene, a beauty as much feminine as masculine, and such amazing coloring! ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)

In a more recent movement, "hir" and "ze" (pronounced "here" and "zee") are sometimes used to describe transgender people - a contemporary challenge that confronts the idea of epicene English like never before. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the merely decorative celebrity cameos — bluff, bearded Walt Whitman, with an "epicene" male friend, and Charles Darwin, who loudly and repeatedly breaks wind — make clear that "Heyday" is infotainment for readers Andersen must consider clueless. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The mad cuckoo behind the little door could not resist casting a shadow upon the virility of his enemy, just as the cuckoo astonishingly characterized those who demonstrated against the war in New York, October 1965, as "epicene" and "mincing" slobs, thus slyly assigning to sodom’s banner such unlikely recruits as I.F. Stone, Ossie Davis, and Father Philip Berrigan. ❋ R_urell (2010)

The Transbad Saints, on the other hand, are a slick crowd of phoneys led by the posturing, epicene Helmet Al Weaver, who steal a No 1 hit from Keva and head for the States. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Today we venerate Caravaggio as the master of chiaroscuro effects of light and shade, of saints with dirty feet, of dramatic religious encounters, as the painter of figures of epicene sexuality. ❋ Willard Spiegelman (2011)

She argued that Camp, a style marked by extravagance, epicene in character, expressed a new sensibility that would "dethrone the serious." ❋ Joseph Epstein (2011)

Puss teams up with Humpty Dumpty a creepily epicene ovoid voiced with eerie plaintiveness by Zach Galifianakis to repay an old debt by stealing some magic beans from Jack and Jill. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

As a grandfather of three very young girls it delights me when I find a book that can take them on a trip to a place they have not been -- and Ms. Levine's wry imagination and Mr. Gorey's powerfully epicene drawings (figure that one out) constitute a whole new country for a child to visit or for a lucky grandfather to act as tour guide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It shows a strikingly handsome young man of perhaps twenty with shoulder-length hair; wise, calm eyes; epicene features; and the thousand-yard stare that Indians always assumed for the camera. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

Only her wastrel cousin Vincent Vere, she believes, possesses a poetic soul similar to her own, though the philistine world regards him as nothing but a sickly, rather epicene dandy and sponge. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course the whole thing was not improved by my being in the middle of a grim, sulky, epicene sort of phase – an adolescent extension of my childhood inertia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Say the word "English", and on minces a monster of effeteness with an epicene flunky. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Subject and object pronominal forms corefer only when outside the antecedent clause domain; when they did, these were, as predicted, more likely to use the epicene/plural form. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For those playing at home, Balhorn found three factors that affect use of epicene ‘they’ in the CT: distance from the antecedent, antecedent sex, and notionally plural predication. re: distance: Possessive and reflexive pronouns were highly likely to appear within the antecedent clause domain, and these were, as predicted, highly likely to agree with their antecedent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This passage occurs in the middle of a 3-page discussion of epicene ‘they’ in Modern English. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[jamie] [picked up] the word 'epicene' [one day], and it just seemed to fit. ❋ Dagger_grrl (2004)

1) 'hey, what is your [sexual preference]? are you more interested in men, women, or both?' 'I am an epicene. I am not looking for a man OR a woman. [I am looking] for my soulmate, and ze could be in either package.' 2) 'whoa, ze is hot! Can you go find out what [zer] name is so I know which way to approach zer? ❋ Ismirth (2007)

Go [flak] a [bawd] you epicene [hobar]! ❋ You're A Donkey-Sucking-Freshman-Flaker (2004)

Dude [jamie] just [experienced] the Epicene Effect. John is totally [gay for] him lol. ❋ Princemorgan (2019)

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