effeminacy

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Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men.

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the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy Source: Internet

Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness Source: Internet

he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him Source: Internet

Decline and fall Otho He accepted, or appeared to accept, the cognomen of Nero conferred upon him by the shouts of the populace, whom his comparative youth and the effeminacy of his appearance reminded of their lost favourite. Source: Internet

An ancient nickname implying effeminacy, used by the oldest English writers, and derived from the imaginary fool's paradise, or lubberland, Cockaygne. Source: Internet

He railed against what he saw as the widespread effeminacy in male dancing which, in his opinion, "tragically" stigmatized the genre, alienating boys from entering the field: "Dancing does attract effeminate young men. Source: Internet

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