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epicene
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noun
  1. An epicene person, thing or word.
Translations:
  • French: personne efféminée
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: persona afeminada
    (trans-bottom)
adjective
  1. lack of gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of the masculine
  2. effeminate " a male with female characteristics;
  3. androgynous " having both male and female characteristics;
  4. asexual " having neither male nor female characteristics; and
  5. (linguistics) having only one form of the word for either male or female referents.
Translations:
  • French: epicène
  • German: beiderlei Geschlechts
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: epiceno
    (trans-bottom)
Etymology: From Middle English < Latin epicoenus < Greek ('common').

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