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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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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 -
Other historians point to the color being linked to effeminacy.—
AJ Willingham,
CNN,
25 June 2023
Noun
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His awkward body language and soft gaze exhibit a boyish tenderness, clouded only by the erratic outbursts of his condition.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
31 Aug. 2025
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Filled with action and adrenaline, the film stays at a fever pitch for most of its duration, only taking brief breaks to showcase the tenderness of the relationship between Riley (Devery Jacobs) and Amanda (Kudakwashe Rutendo).—
Quispe López,
Them.,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This gives it flexibility, softness, warmth, and breathability.—
Anne Taylor,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Sep. 2025
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Rudoy says the pieces are rooted in unparalleled softness and crafted with intention.—
Catherine Salfino,
Sourcing Journal,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That there is impotence and cancer and infidelity and vanity and loss.—
Lyz Lenz,
Rolling Stone,
16 Aug. 2025
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The rumors of my cinematic impotence are exaggerated and ageist.—
Rance Collins,
IndieWire,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And ultimately, both films are about helplessness.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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Before the service, Zehren acknowledged his own sense of helplessness in the moment of the attack, unable to save the lives of 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There was a clear vocabulary to define consent within OneTaste, but one witness after another spoke of pressure and powerlessness.—
Thessaly La Force,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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Workers internalize powerlessness, hyper vigilance, and anxiety.—
Rahkim Sabree,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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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 11 Sep. 2025.
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