Usually means: Display of traits stereotypically feminine.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. effeminacy: Merriam-Webster
  2. effeminacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. effeminacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. effeminacy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. effeminacy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Effeminacy, effeminacy: Wordnik
  7. effeminacy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. effeminacy: Wiktionary
  9. effeminacy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. effeminacy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Effeminacy, effeminacy: Dictionary.com
  12. Effeminacy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Effeminacy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. effeminacy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. effeminacy: Rhymezone
  16. Effeminacy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. effeminacy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. effeminacy: FreeDictionary.org
  19. effeminacy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. effeminacy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Effeminacy (classical vice), Effeminacy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. effeminacy: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (effeminacy)

▸ noun:  The quality of being effeminate.

Similar:
effeminateness, sissiness, womanishness, unmanliness, effœminacy, effæminacy, feminality, effeteness, femmeness, femineity, more...

Opposite:
masculinity, machismo, virility

Types:
camp, flamboyant, effete, mollycoddle, sissy, pansy, nancy boy, more...

Adjectives:
male, modern, such, certain, own, luxurious, extreme, general, oriental, soft, apparent

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Similar:
effeminateness, sissiness, womanishness, unmanliness, effœminacy, effæminacy, feminality, effeteness, femmeness, femineity, more...

Opposite:
masculinity, machismo, virility

Types:
camp, flamboyant, effete, mollycoddle, sissy, pansy, nancy boy, more...

Adjectives:
male, modern, such, certain, own, luxurious, extreme, general, oriental, soft, apparent



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