Gender vs. Epicene: What's the Difference?

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.

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

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 an ambiguous sexual identity

Females or males considered as a group

Having male and female characteristics.

(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.

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

Sex, male or female.

Having no male or female characteristics.

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

One that is epicene.

To beget; to engender.

(Linguistics) An epicene word.

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

(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.).

The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category

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

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

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

To engender.

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.

(obsolete) Class; kind.

(by extension) Indeterminate; mixed.

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

Of a man: effeminate.

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.

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

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

(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).

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

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

An effeminate man.

(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.

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.

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

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

(archaic) To engender.

Having unsuitable feminine qualities

To breed.

Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.

Kind; sort.

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