epicene

1. 1.

   one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

   Synonymshermaphroditeintersexgynandromorphandrogyneepicene person

   Broaderbisexual

Other forms of epicene

plural

epicenes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about epicene

What does epicene mean?

epicene means "having an ambiguous sexual identity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in epicene?

epicene has 3 syllables: e-pi-cene. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for epicene?

Close synonyms include bisexual, effeminate, emasculate, cissy, sissified. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is epicene a common word?

epicene is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.