EFFETENESS Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

effeteness

noun

as in effeminacy

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Noun

This horror at effeminacy echoes across Baldwin’s novels and essays.

— Garth Greenwell, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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

Definition of effeminacy

Noun

Yes, the menu includes Attilio Marini’s famous steak cooked in a cast iron skillet for crispiness on the outside and tenderness inside.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
Wood’s solo, punctuated by Jagger’s falsetto, delivers just the right amount of tenderness and soul.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026

Definition of tenderness

Noun

After tasting 11 nationally available corn tortillas, our editors named Mission Street Tacos the best overall, with Masienda as our premium pick and Mi Rancho our favorite for softness.

— Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 July 2026
Sheng bakes shokupan, a fluffy Japanese milk bread, fresh from scratch using a traditional recipe and a Pullman pan, ensuring perfectly square slices with the exact structure and softness needed to hold its fillings.

— Sam Flemming, AJC.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of softness

Noun

The Iran and Gaza wars have thrown that absence and European strategic impotence into sharp relief.

— Galip Dalay, Time, 7 July 2026
So imagine his feelings of impotence and rage when the boy is killed anyway, by an impossible arrow that finds its target through a tiny crack in a door and then, apparently, vanishes.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 May 2026

Definition of impotence

Noun

For many Venezuelans, the anger is rooted not in abstract politics but in intensely personal experiences of chaos, helplessness and institutional failure.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
And to relegate yourself to that inert position so much does, at some level, inspire a certain helplessness in you.

— Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026

Definition of helplessness

Noun

Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have been actively documenting the ways menstruation has been used to ground false arguments about women’s weakness, invalidism, and inferiority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
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

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