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EFFEMINACY

English dictionary: Word overview

EFFEMINACY (noun)
  The noun EFFEMINACY has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)

  Familiarity information: EFFEMINACY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


EFFEMINACY (noun)


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Meaning:

The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

effeminacy; effeminateness; sissiness; unmanliness; womanishness; softness

Context examples:

the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy / he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him

Hypernyms ("effeminacy" is a kind of...):

femininity; muliebrity (the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women)

Domain usage:

depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "effeminacy"):

emasculation (loss of power and masculinity)


English Proverbs
"A lie has no legs."
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"If you start on a journey, you will also cross plains, mountains and stones."
(Albanian proverb)
"While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you."
(Arabic proverb)
"Half an egg is better than an empty shell."
(Dutch proverb)


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