Difference between Sissified and Epicene

What is the difference between Sissified and Epicene?

Sissified as an adjective is made like a sissy. effete. while Epicene as an adjective is lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine

Sissified

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Made like a sissy. Effete.

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 Sissified or Epicene in your sentence.

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