effeteness

noun

Definition of effetenessnext
1
as in effeminacy

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2
as in tenderness

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  1. effeminacy
  2. tenderness
  3. impotence
  4. invalidism
Noun
  • The researchers theorized this could be in part because of greater stigma toward effeminacy in boys than masculinity in girls.
    Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Other historians point to the color being linked to effeminacy.
    AJ Willingham, CNN, 25 June 2023
Definition of effeminacy
Noun
  • Amid Sparklehorse’s woozy surrealism, this is a suitably odd dose of tenderness.
    Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Once done, immerse them in cold water to stop the cooking process and preserve their tenderness.
    Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of tenderness
Noun
  • But Harrelson capably channels his character’s impotence, unable to suppress his shame that his wife is becoming the breadwinner by writing catchy jingles.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 July 2024
  • Lead is dangerous for both children and adults, and can contribute to high blood pressure, kidney and brain damage, infertility, and impotence.
    Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 13 Sep. 2024
Definition of impotence
Noun
  • Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
  • As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Definition of invalidism
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