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effeminacy
effeminacy In this historical usage, effeminacy means the presence in a male of traits of mind or character regarded as feminine, especially qualities seen as more delicate or conventionally associated with women.
In this historical usage, effeminacy means the presence in a male of traits of mind or character regarded as feminine, especially qualities seen as more delicate or conventionally associated with women. The source distinguishes it from “feminism,” which it uses for broader physical as well as mental resemblance to the female type, and notes that an extreme form was then classified under sexual inversion.