Effeminacy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality or condition of being effeminate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the quality of being effeminate
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or quality of being effeminate; feminine delicacy or weakness; want of manliness; womanishness: commonly applied, in reproach, to men exhibiting such a character.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
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    womanishness    invirility    woman    femininity    feminity   
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