Difference between Emasculate and Epicene

What is the difference between Emasculate and Epicene?

Emasculate as an adjective is deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. while Epicene as an adjective is lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine

Emasculate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

Epicene

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A hermaphrodite person or other creatureAn effeminate personAn epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms.An epicene object

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminineeffeminate — male with unusually strong female characteristics;androgynous, hermaphrodite — having both male and female characteristics;asexual — having neither male nor female characteristics;having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents.

We hope you now know whether to use Emasculate or Epicene in your sentence.

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