EFFETENESS Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

effeteness

noun

as in effeminacy

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as in tenderness

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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

Its moribund eccentricities cannot be separated from the tenderness of its story because Rhys and co-writer and composer, Joss Holden-Rea, have taken the time to sculpt characters with interiority that feels invitational.

— Zachary Lee, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026
Instead, the music can provide somewhere to put those feelings, a place where sadness, anger, desire, tenderness and joy can coexist without needing to be immediately resolved.

— Jason Phillips, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of tenderness

Noun

These comments were a relief to investors who may have been bracing for signs of softness and a possible guidance cut.

— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
Ornamental grasses are a wonderful way to spruce up your lawn or add some softness and movement to your garden.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of softness

Noun

According to reports, Brinkley would inject slivers of Billy goat gonads into human scrotums as a cure for impotence.

— Richard Wagoner, Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026
Once again, Gulf leaders were shocked not just by American disregard for their preferences but also by the revelation of American impotence.

— MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of impotence

Noun

There is a particular sort of helplessness that comes from knowing exactly how to fix a computer while being hundreds of miles away from it.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2026
As Josephine’s mother, Claire, Chan is luminous with quiet sorrow, conveying maternal guilt and helplessness with precision.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of helplessness

Noun

New characters are introduced, many interesting details are offered, yet the narration never loses its focus, every sentence adding to the characters’ mounting sense of powerlessness in the face of such a tragic death.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
This atmosphere of collective powerlessness offers one explanation for the conspiratorial thinking at the heart of Lamar versus Drake.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of powerlessness

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

Definition of invalidism

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