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Epicene

adjective
1.
Having an ambiguous sexual identity.  Synonym: bisexual.
2.
Having unsuitable feminine qualities.  Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish.






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"Epicene" Quotes from Famous Books



... boats with steps, like those at Malta, is sensible enough. Fine bold swimmers struck out well beside me in the water while I had my morning dip from the yawl. As for the epicene bathing—masculine women and womanish males who partake of "sea-bathing by machinery"—separate machines, but that is ...
— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

... do. I pronounce it again, Nobilis is no rake. To be of that order, he must be vicious against his will, and not so by study or application. All Pretty Fellows are also excluded to a man, as well as all Inamaratos, or persons of the epicene gender, who gaze at one another in the presence of ladies. This class, of which I am giving you an account, is pretended to also by men of strong abilities in drinking; though they are such whom the liquor, not the conversation, keeps together. But blockheads may roar, fight, and stab, and ...
— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken

... when from his window he could see their splendid vigor and beauty; even while Moadine, as patient and friendly as if she had never helped Alima to hold and bind him, sat there in the room, the picture of wisdom and serene strength. "Sexless, epicene, undeveloped neuters!" he went on bitterly. He sounded like ...
— Herland • Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman



Words linked to "Epicene" :   unmanlike, unmanly, unmanful, bisexual person, androgynous



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