- Belonging to or having the characteristics of both the male and the female: an epicene statue.
- Effeminate; unmanly.
- Sexless; neuter.
- Linguistics. Having only one form of the noun for both the male and the female.
- One that is epicene.
- Linguistics. An epicene word.
[Middle English, having only one form of the noun for either gender, from Latin epicoenus, from Greek epikoinos, in common : epi-, epi- + koinos, common.]
epicenism ep'i·cen'ism n.


