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Androgenous vs Epicene - What's the difference?

androgenous | epicene |

As adjectives the difference between androgenous and epicene

is that androgenous is of, pertaining to, or producing androgens; androgenic while epicene is lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine.

As a noun epicene is

a hermaphrodite person or other creature.

androgenous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or producing androgens; androgenic
  • * {{quote-journal, 1983, B.J. Duchac et al., Electron microscopical studies of gonads in primary and secondary males of protogynous hermaphroditic fish, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, doi=10.1007/BF01990112
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    • epicene

    English

    (wikipedia epicene)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine.
  • Effeminate (male with unusually strong female characteristics).
  • (biology) Androgynous, hermaphrodite (having both male and female characteristics).
  • (biology) Asexual (having neither male nor female characteristics).
  • (linguistics) Having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents.

    • Synonyms

    * (lacking gender distinction) unisex * (effeminate) camp, effeminate, unmanly * androgynous, hermaphrodite * asexual

    Derived terms

    * epicenism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hermaphrodite person or other creature.
  • An effeminate person.
  • An epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms.
  • An epicene object.

    • See also

    * common ----