epicene |ˈepiˌsēn| adjectivehaving characteristics of both sexes or no characteristics of either sex; of indeterminate sex: the sort of epicene beauty peculiar to boys of a certain age.• effeminate; effete: the actor infused the role with an epicene languor.nounan epicene person.ORIGIN late Middle English (as a grammaticalterm): via late Latin from Greek epikoinos (based on koinos ‘common’).
Until yesterday I had no knowledge of the existence of this word. You'd think it should be listed as a synonym for androgynous but my dictionary doesn't think so.
Huh, I had it SOOO wrong - I was thinking a geologic age, like Pleistocene.
ReplyDeleteCharlie Cochrane said the exact same thing, with the exception that she actually knew the word.
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