sissiness

Other forms of sissiness

plural

sissinesses·

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 sissiness

What does sissiness mean?

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

How many syllables are in sissiness?

sissiness has 3 syllables: sis-si-ness. The stress falls on "sis".

What is another word for sissiness?

Close synonyms include effeminacy, effeminateness, 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 sissiness a common word?

sissiness 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.