effeteness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for effeteness
Noun
  • 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
  • What truly holds marriages together is truth delivered with tenderness.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Charcuterie and cheese, potatoes and onions, meat and offal: These are the ingredients that animate Harris’s chalkboard menu, all old friends, treated with a grandmotherly mix of tenderness and brawn.
    Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Jack Harrison squandered one promising position with a pass that dribbled through to Caoimhin Kelleher, a metaphor for their impotence during the evening.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The response is similar concerning United’s impotence in front of goal.
    Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 26 Apr. 2025.

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