Main entry: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, womanishness, unmanliness
Definition: the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
Usage: 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