EPICENE

effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy

(adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities

bisexual, epicene

(adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity

hermaphrodite, intersex, gynandromorph, androgyne, epicene, epicene person

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

epicene (not comparable)

(linguistics) Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).

(linguistics) Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.

Synonym: common

(by extension) Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex.

(biology and figuratively) Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face.

Synonyms: gynandromorphic, gynandrous

(by extension) Indeterminate; mixed.

(by extension, usually, pejorative) Of a man: effeminate.

Noun

epicene (plural epicenes)

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

(biology and figuratively) An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite. [from 17th c.]

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

(by extension, usually, pejorative) An effeminate man.

Notes

Source: Wiktionary

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Ep"i*cene, a. & n. Etym: [L. epicoenus, Gr. épicène.]

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 bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

2. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. The literary prigs epicene. Prof. Wilson. He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman. J. A. Symonds.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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