英语词汇“epicene”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

单词	epicene
释义	ep·i·cene I. \ˈepəˌsēn\ adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin epicoenus, from Greek epikoinos, from epi- + koinos common — more at co- 1. : having but one form to indicate either male or female sex (as Latin bos “a bull, ox, or cow”) — used of a noun 2. : having characteristics typical of the other sex : intersexual < his brothers suspect the epicene wife because of her masculine arms — R.H.Lowie > : effeminate 3. : lacking the typical characteristics of either sex : sexless < perpetual children … happy epicene Peter Pans — Dwight Macdonald > 4. : lacking vigor < recent epicene treatises … withdraw from the major task of evaluating significance — Ephraim Fischoff > : lacking vigorous masculinity < the hearty sportsman … really epicene beneath his tweeds — Wolcott Gibbs > : delicate < a swift epicene felicity of wit — Evelyn Waugh > II. noun (-s) : one who is epicene
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