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as in effeminacy
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as in tenderness
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Noun
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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
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This recipe uses an Instant Pot to quickly cook the meat to juicy tenderness.—
Deputy Food Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2026
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Having a husband who engaged with his kids with ferocious tenderness and playful delight was a gift.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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Across the interiors, a local paper artist has fashioned traditional Kurotani Japanese paper into fixtures like the sliding doors and other furnishings to bring a softness to the home’s design.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
23 Apr. 2026
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Plush featured soft fabrics made with chenille, velour and corduroy to mimic the warmth and softness of cashmere.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
22 Apr. 2026
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But these songs are also honest, sometimes despite themselves, about the feelings of impotence associated with watching history play out on a screen.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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Those include epidural steroid injections for pain management, cervical fusion, diagnosis and treatment of impotence, and skin and tissue substitutes.—
Jillian Taylor,
StateImpact,
16 Jan. 2026
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Retí’s is the standout performance, cogently mapping a mother’s tenacity buckling under a mounting feeling of helplessness at watching her child disappear into a mystery.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
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Different circumstances, and yet his helplessness, medicine’s helplessness, felt the same.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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The characters in this novel are forced to live in a neoliberal world where their powerlessness is already predetermined, and they’re ignored by society and told to just keep on living.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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Perhaps the deepest conflict is not between red and blue, but between power and powerlessness.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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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
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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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“Effeteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effeteness. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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