Gender vs. Epicene

A grammatical category, often designated as male, female, or neuter, used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.

Having male and female characteristics.

The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category

Having characteristics traditionally ascribed to another sex, especially as a male who is considered to be effeminate.

Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, by which most organisms are classified on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions; sex.

Having no male or female characteristics.

One's identity as female or male or as neither entirely female nor entirely male.

(Linguistics) Having only one form for both the male and the female

Females or males considered as a group

One that is epicene.

To engender.

(Linguistics) An epicene word.

(obsolete) Class; kind.

(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.).

(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, and animate or inanimate.

(linguistics) Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.

Sex a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.

(by extension) Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex.

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.

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.

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(by extension) Indeterminate; mixed.

(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).

Of a man: effeminate.

An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

(linguistics) An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class.

(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.

An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite.

(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

(by extension) A transsexual; also, a transvestite.

(archaic) To engender.

An effeminate man.

To breed.

Common to both sexes; - a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.

Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

Kind; sort.

Having an ambiguous sexual identity

Sex, male or female.

Having unsuitable feminine qualities

A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

To beget; to engender.

To copulate; to breed.

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

The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;