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[syn: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, womanishness, unmanliness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Effeminateness \Ef*fem"i*nate*ness\, n.
The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness. --Fuller.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
effeminateness
n 1: 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" [syn:
effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness,
womanishness, unmanliness]