1
as in effeminacy
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as in tenderness
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Noun
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The researchers theorized this could be in part because of greater stigma toward effeminacy in boys than masculinity in girls.—
Benjamin Ryan,
NBC News,
4 Oct. 2023 -
Other historians point to the color being linked to effeminacy.—
AJ Willingham,
CNN,
25 June 2023
Noun
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Symptoms include bruising, swelling, tenderness, and pain.—
Laura Schober,
Health,
16 Jan. 2025
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There’s tenderness also in Bob’s visits to his trailblazing hero Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), by 1961 hospitalized with Huntington’s disease and nonverbal.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Social media, though, offers an alternative to this impotence.—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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As such, side effects of surgery and radiation therapy for prostate cancer often include incontinence, impotence and bowel dysfunction.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
12 Nov. 2021
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As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
17 Aug. 2022
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“Effeteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effeteness. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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