4 example sentences using epicene.
Epicene used in a sentence
Epicene in a sentence as a noun
Because using a photo and name would have been too simple and trivial?No need to talk about the max three people with epicene names and faces who maybe could have abused this, they don't matter.
The theory was that human nature is essentially epicene and social distinctions based on sex are arbitrarily constructed.
Epicene in a sentence as an adjective
He obviously meant the indefinite, generic and epicene, non-referring anaphor "their" and not the definite, plural, referring pronoun "their".
In my idiolect, changing the gender of pronouns inside of idioms is highly marked, even though I use singular "they" as the epicene pronoun.> The classic phrase was ... strangely genderedI don't think it was "strangely" gendered; despite recent growth in the corpus frequency of singular "they", many formal manuals of style still prohibit its usage, preferring "one" as the epicene pronoun.
Epicene definitions
one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
See also: hermaphrodite intersex gynandromorph androgyne
having an ambiguous sexual identity
See also: bisexual
having unsuitable feminine qualities
See also: effeminate emasculate cissy sissified sissyish sissy