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epicene
Definition
1. Belonging to or possessing the characteristics of both sexes; common to both sexes. An epicene word, statue, college. 2. Having or exhibiting characteristics typical of the other sex as with an effeminate man or a masculine woman; also, lacking the characteristics typical of either sex, or sexless.
Synonym: ambisexual.
See also: ambiguous gender; androgyne; bigendered; gender variant; hermaphrodite; omnigendered; polygendered; transsexual; variant expressive.
3. Sexless, neutral, as in grammar, indicating either sex with only one grammatical form; having only one form of the noun for both genders.
4. In earlier dictionaries, Ben Jonson's for example, defined as someone effeminate or unmanly.
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