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womanishness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun womanishness has 1 sense
- womanishness(n = noun.attribute) effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness - 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 womanish1
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