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

But there is a real tenderness that’s thrown into the mix with the lewd banter and glass-half-empty outlook.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Side effects included injection-site reactions such as pain, tenderness and swollen lymph nodes; fatigue; headache; muscle or joint pain; nausea or vomiting; and fever.

— Elise Haulund, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of tenderness

Noun

His feelings for these boys are described with a soul-baring softness, especially striking for its divergence from Ellis’s usual ruthless unsentimentality.

— Leo Lasdun, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
Apricots can bring softness to your scent wardrobe, and Dior’s Jasmin des Anges does it with the utmost sophistication.

— Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of softness

Noun

This prescient issue is buried in a recent, must-read Free Press article by Niall Ferguson and John-Clark Levin that laments the growing impotence of the old-fashioned historian in the face of bots and algorithmic amplifications.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026
The Iran and Gaza wars have thrown that absence and European strategic impotence into sharp relief.

— Galip Dalay, Time, 7 July 2026

Definition of impotence

Noun

Indignation emerged as the dominant emotion, cited by 80% of respondents, followed by helplessness (74%) and sadness (71%).

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026
Europeans also exposed themselves to a concerted and resourceful Americanization, which partly accounts for their intellectual helplessness today.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 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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