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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
unmanliness is a noun meaning "the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)". It carries one recorded sense.
the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
“the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy”
“Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness”
“he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him”
disparagement
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unmanliness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.