Definitions for epicenes

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epicenes ep·i·cene

Spelling: [ep-i-seen]

IPA: /ˈɛp ɪˌsin/

Epicenes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in epicenes (ceeeinps).

Definitions for epicenes

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 epicenes

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

Examples for epicenes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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