effeminacy

Other forms of effeminacy

plural

effeminacies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about effeminacy

What does effeminacy mean?

effeminacy means "the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)".

How many syllables are in effeminacy?

effeminacy has 5 syllables: ef-fe-mi-na-cy. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for effeminacy?

Close synonyms include effeminateness, sissiness, softness, womanishness, unmanliness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is effeminacy a common word?

effeminacy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.