Epicene

Definitions: Epicene

Epicene

Adjective

1. Having an ambiguous sexual identity.

2. Having unsuitable feminine qualities.

Date "epicene" was first used: sometime around 1450. (references)

Synonyms: Epicene

Synonyms: bisexual (adj), cissy (adj), effeminate (adj), emasculate (adj), sissified (adj), sissy (adj), sissyish (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Epicene

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Multiformity	Adjective: polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous, multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne; and what not? de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis.
Unconformity	Heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal; asymmetric; adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Epicene

English words defined with "epicene": Epicoene. (references)

Etymologies containing "epicene": Epicoene. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Epicene" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Russian (bisexual).

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Commercial Usage: Epicene

Domain	Title
Books	Epicene Pronouns: The Linguistics of a Prescriptive Problem (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) (reference) Epicene, or the Silent Woman (reference) The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or the Fox: Epicene, or the Silent Woman: The Alchemist: Bartholomew Fair (Worlds Classics) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Epicene

"Epicene" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Epicene" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Epicene

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
epicene	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Epicene

Language		Translations for "epicene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njëgjinor. (various references)

Arabic		‏الخنثى. (various references)

Bulgarian		хермафродитен (androgynous, bisexual, monoecious), хермафродит (hermaphrodite), от общ род, двуполов (androgynous, bisexual). (various references)

French		éfféminé. (various references)

Hungarian		kétnemû (androgynous, hermaphrodite). (various references)

Italian		ermafrodito (hermaphrodite, Hermaphroditic, hermaphroditical), epiceno. (various references)

Pig Latin		epiceneay

Portuguese		epiceno, heróico (heroic, heroin). (various references)

Russian		общего рода. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dvopolni. (various references)

Spanish		epiceno. (various references)

Thai		ไม่ใช่ทั้งเพศหญิงและเพศชาย, อ่อนแอ (droop, effete, enfeebled, namby-pamby, rickety, silly), มีบุคลิกลักษ�"ะของทั้งสองเพศ. (various references)

Turkish		eril ve dişil hali aynı olan, her iki cinsin özelliğini taşıyan, üniseks (unisex). (various references)

Ukranian		безстатевий (agamic, asexual, neuter, neutral, sexless), двостатевий (androgynous, hermaphrodite, monogamous). (various references)

Vietnamese		người ái nam ái nữ (androgyne). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Epicene

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	epicoenus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Epicene

Derivations
	Words beginning with "epicene": epicenes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Epicene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epice, epicone, peccune, Peirene, Piccone, Picenum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Epicene"

Words rhyming with "epicene" (pronounced 'Ep"i*cene'): Antenicene, Anthracene, Decene, Eocene, Meiocene, Miocene, Neocene, Nicene, Obscene, Oligocene, Paranthracene, Picene, Pleiocene, Pleistocene, Postpliocene, Pulicene. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Epicene

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-n-p"
	-2 letters: niece, pence, piece.
	-3 letters: cepe, cine, epee, epic, neep, nice, peen, pein, pice, pine.
	-4 letters: cee, cep, ice, nee, nip, pec, pee, pen, pic, pie, pin.
	-5 letters: en, in, ne, pe, pi.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-n-p"
	+1 letter: epicenes.
	+2 letters: centipede, epicenter, nosepiece, penitence.
	+3 letters: centipedes, cineplexes, creepiness, enciphered, encipherer, epenthetic, epicenters, epigenetic, expedience, expediency, experience, nosepieces, pendencies, penitences, percentile, pertinence, pestilence, prescience.
	+4 letters: appetencies, cenospecies, centerpiece, encipherers, epeirogenic, expediences, experienced, experiences, hebephrenic, impenitence, inappetence, intercepted, intercepter, mantelpiece, pedogenetic, percentiles, percipience, persistence, pertinences, pestilences, preciseness, preconceive, preelecting, preelection, preeminence, preerecting, presciences, provenience, reinspected, unperceived, unreceptive.
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