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effeminateness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun effeminateness has 1 sense
- effeminateness(n = noun.attribute) effeminacy, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness - 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 femininity that guided him" is a kind of femininity, muliebrity
has particulars: emasculation
Derived form adjective effeminate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
effeminateness, n.
The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
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