[ep-i-seen] 
| 1. | belonging to, or partaking of the characteristics of, both sexes: Fashions in clothing are becoming increasingly epicene. |
| 2. | flaccid; feeble; weak: an epicene style of writing. |
| 3. | effeminate; unmasculine. |
| 4. | (of Greek and Latin nouns) of the same gender class regardless of the sex of the being referred to, as Latin vulpēs “fox or vixen” is always grammatically feminine. |
| 5. | Grammar. (of a noun or pronoun) capable of referring to either sex, as attendant, chairperson, Kim, one, or they; having common gender. |
| 6. | a person or thing that is epicene. |
| ep·i·cene (ěp'ĭ-sēn') adj.
[Middle English, having only one form of the noun for either gender, from Latin epicoenus, from Greek epikoinos, in common : epi-, epi- + koinos, common; see kom in Indo-European roots.] ep'i·cen'ism n. |