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WOMANISHNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does womanishness mean?

• WOMANISHNESS (noun)
The noun WOMANISHNESS has 1 sense:

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

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

Dictionary entry details

• WOMANISHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("womanishness" 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 "womanishness"):

emasculation (loss of power and masculinity)

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