| Definitions | noun
- An epicene person, thing or word.
Translations: - French: personne efféminée
(trans-mid)
- Spanish: persona afeminada
(trans-bottom)
adjective
- lack of gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of the masculine
- effeminate " a male with female characteristics;
- androgynous " having both male and female characteristics;
- asexual " having neither male nor female characteristics; and
- (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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