Gender vs. Epicene
Difference Between Gender and Epicene
Gendernoun
Grammatical gender.
Epiceneadjective
(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.).
Gendernoun
(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common.
Epiceneadjective
(linguistics) Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.
Gendernoun
(grammar) Any division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.
Epiceneadjective
(by extension) Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex.
Gendernoun
(grammar) lang=en
Epiceneadjective
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.
Gendernoun
(obsolete) Class; kind.
Epiceneadjective
(by extension) Indeterminate; mixed.
Gendernoun
Sex a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
the gene is activated in both gendersThe effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.Epiceneadjective
Of a man: effeminate.
Gendernoun
(sociology) Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. Compare gender role, gender identity.
Epicenenoun
(linguistics) An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class.
Gendernoun
(hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
Epicenenoun
An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite.
Genderverb
(sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
Epicenenoun
(by extension) A transsexual; also, a transvestite.
Genderverb
(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
Epicenenoun
An effeminate man.
Genderverb
(archaic) To engender.
Epiceneadjective
having an ambiguous sexual identity
Genderverb
To breed.
Epiceneadjective
having unsuitable feminine qualities
Gendernoun
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
Gendernoun
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;
she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus
