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Meanings of epicene in English
Linguistics term; word with identical female and male forms.
Related terms
One having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made.
Having unsuitable feminine qualities.
Synonyms
Examples for "bisexual"
Examples for "bisexual"
1
Hi Amy, I recently told my best friend that I am bisexual.
2
Why choose to write Billy as bisexual and include several transgendered characters?
3
Human Rights Campaign represents people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
4
That first bisexual encounter had a profound and lasting effect on me.
5
Corin Redgrave revealed in a later biography that their father was bisexual.
Usage of epicene in English
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He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.
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As for the epicene coteries of Bloomsbury, they filled him with loathing.
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But this epicene state of enjoyment was not long to last.
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Just who are those who enjoy the epicene on the stage?
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Fancy a slender-hipped orchidaceous person, an epicene youth with Botticellian hair and a Nietzsche walk.
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Tucci, flexing an epicene machismo, endears as a magician whose specialty is in making his act go wrong.
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Another epicene creature flies by her.
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Lentulus is slender, fair-haired, epicene.
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There was a lack of grit and stamina about him-somethingsoft, both in manner and appearance; something dreamy, ambiguous, almost epicene.
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This seemed to him an odd way to look at things, and he boggled over a phrase about an "epicene lily."
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From behind the headstone came the now ambiguous and epicene figure of the Wilbur twin, contorted to hold together the back of his waist.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest The margins of Epicene in the 1640 book.
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He called them neuters, epicenes, bloodless, sexless creatures.
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[Vide the play of "Epicene, or the Silent Woman," in which Mrs.
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"Sexless, epicene, undeveloped neuters!" he went on bitterly.
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He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.
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Epicene through the time