Effeminacy: alternatives and connections

The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus,…

A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

Old-womanish; imbecile.

To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid.

A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matter…

To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing…

Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.

Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as,…

Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.

In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.

Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

To make womanish or effeminate.

A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.

The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mi…

Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season.