Epicene vs. Gender

Epiceneadjective

(linguistics) Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).

Epiceneadjective

(linguistics) Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.

Epiceneadjective

(by extension) Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex.

Epiceneadjective

Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face.

Epiceneadjective

(by extension) Indeterminate; mixed.

Epiceneadjective

Of a man: effeminate.

Epicenenoun

(linguistics) An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class.

Epicenenoun

An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite.

Epicenenoun

(by extension) A transsexual; also, a transvestite.

Epicenenoun

An effeminate man.

Epiceneadjective

Common to both sexes; - a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

Epiceneadjective

Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

Epiceneadjective

having an ambiguous sexual identity

Epiceneadjective

having unsuitable feminine qualities

Gendernoun

Grammatical gender.

Gendernoun

(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common.

Gendernoun

(grammar) Any division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.

Gendernoun

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Gendernoun

(obsolete) Class; kind.

Gendernoun

Sex a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.

Gendernoun

(sociology) Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. Compare gender role, gender identity.

Gendernoun

(hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).

Genderverb

(sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.

Genderverb

(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

Genderverb

(archaic) To engender.

Genderverb

To breed.

Gendernoun

Kind; sort.

Gendernoun

Sex, male or female.

Gendernoun

A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

Genderverb

To beget; to engender.

Genderverb

To copulate; to breed.

Gendernoun

a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

Gendernoun

the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;

Gendernoun

either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female

Gendernoun

members of a particular gender considered as a group

Gendernoun

the fact or condition of belonging to or identifying with a particular gender

Gendernoun

(in languages such as Latin, French, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections which they have and which they require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex.

Gendernoun

the property (in nouns and related words) of belonging to a grammatical gender

Gender

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, femininity and masculinity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex, sex-based social structures (i.e., gender roles), or gender identity.