Definitions for epicene

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epicene ep·i·cene

Spelling: [ep-i-seen]

IPA: /ˈɛp ɪˌsin/

Epicene is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in epicene (ceeeinp).

Definitions for epicene

noun

1. a person or thing that is epicene.

adjective

1. belonging to, or partaking of the characteristics of, both sexes:
2. flaccid; feeble; weak:
3. effeminate; unmasculine.
4. (of Greek and Latin nouns) of the same gender class regardless of the sex of the being referred to, as Latin vulpēs “fox or vixen” is always grammatically feminine.
5. Grammar. (of a noun or pronoun) capable of referring to either sex, as attendant, chairperson, Kim, one, or they; having common gender.

Origin of epicene

1400-50; late Middle English Latin epicoenus of both genders Greek epíkoinos common to many, equivalent to epi- epi- + koinós common

Examples for epicene

But a liberal-minded public grew more and more in favor of epicene colleges.

The latest development of the impulses which animate the epicene sex has taken its expression in after-dinner oratory.

Sentiment is the ultima ratio feminarum, and of men whose natures are of the epicene gender.

He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.

He was a great contrast to the epicene bird-like creature who had lorded it over the civic fortunes of Valladolid.

What's the meaning of this; and what, may I ask, is the intention of this—this epicene attire?

This seemed to him an odd way to look at things, and he boggled over a phrase about an "epicene lily."