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as in effeminacy
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as in tenderness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for effeteness
Noun
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This horror at effeminacy echoes across Baldwin’s novels and essays.—
Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That kindness, tenderness and childlike wonder and joy is not weakness, but power.—
Cynthia Pelayo,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
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That tenderness carried straight into the night.—
Emma Madden,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
Noun
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The softness of the photo contrasts so beautifully with the red bacon strip.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
11 Dec. 2025
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Not to mention, sometimes water softness contains a lot of sodium that can corrode the pieces too.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
10 Dec. 2025
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The bulk of Jack’s patents were for medical devices, among them a knife used for hair transplants and a prosthetic device for overcoming male impotence.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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That’s one full game of brilliance, and another full game of impotence.—
Zach Berman,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This feeling of helplessness led Houchin to co-lead on this bill with Auchincloss, as well as introduce two other bills aimed at making AI chatbots safer for kids.—
Charlotte Alter,
Time,
1 Dec. 2025
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We are left to sit in our own helplessness and with the memory of hers.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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The politics of powerlessness is a set of ideas and behaviors based on an ambivalence toward power.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2026
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Twelve-step programs require members to admit powerlessness (Step 1), acknowledge that their thinking is impaired (Step 2), turn decisions over to an outside entity (Step 3), and take responsibility for their role in past harms (Steps 4, 8, 9, and 10).—
Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2026
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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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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
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“Effeteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effeteness. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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