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effeminacy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
| Type of | femininity, muliebrity |
| Has types | emasculation |
the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy.
Examples of effeminacy
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Clement also opposes the dying of men's hair and male depilation as effeminacy.
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You warm, too, to Pizzorno's butch effeminacy and his fondness for the dressing-up box.
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The term effeminaphobia was coined to describe strong anti-effeminacy.
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A man who enjoyed the receiving role was subject to mockery for weakness and effeminacy.
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Effeminacy always brought out the vitriolic best in comedians, particularly in pre-code days.
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This paradox of manliness and effeminacy riles the other officers.
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An example of the continuing route toward effeminacy in football.
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For a man to carry one was considered a mark of effeminacy.
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The charge of effeminacy was aimed not just at Newman but at Tractarians and Roman Catholics in general.
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- The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man); "the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy"; "Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness"; "he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the ...
- (effeminate) having unsuitable feminine qualities
- Effeminacy describes traits in a human male, that are more often associated with traditional feminine nature, behaviour, mannerisms, style or gender roles rather than masculine nature, behaviour, mannerisms, style or roles.
- (effeminate) To make womanly; to unman; Having behaviour or mannerisms considered unmasculine or typical of a woman or girl; feminine
- (Effeminate) A nasty mean-spirited little word that manages to insult not only the men in its direct line of fire, but all the women on the planet. Also imprecise and woefullyhard to pronounce.
- (Effeminate) Manners, behaviours like those of a woman.
- (effeminate) (634) having the qualities generally attributed to women; unmanly; not virile. Milton uses the term in the sense that a man allows a woman to take his place in the natural hierarchy in which, for Milton, women were inferior to men, especially in terms of reason and intellect.
- (effeminate) A man or boy that acts like a female.
