The quality or condition of being effeminate (in various senses of effeminate, adj.); effeminacy.

Usually depreciative. Quality or characteristics regarded or characterized as effeminate or feminine; esp. (in a man) lack of physical strength…

Daintiness; effeminacy. Obsolete.

Softness; effeminacy; luxuriousness.

Softness; effeminacy. Obsolete.

Effeminacy.

depreciative. Feminine quality or characteristics as considered undesirable in a man; effeminacy. Cf. femininity, n. 1b. rare.

= femininity, n. 1b. Now rare.

The quality or state of being a lady; (also) effeminacy.

Effeminacy. Cf. Miss Nancyism, n.

depreciative. Feminine quality or characteristics as considered undesirable (esp. in a man); effeminacy. Cf. feminity, n. 1b.

Effeminacy.

the state or fact of being sissyish.

Mannerisms, speech, etc., in a man that are regarded as flamboyant, arch, or theatrical, esp. in a way often characterized as feminine or…

the action or fact of making someone or something sissyish.

The action or fact of being camp; camp behaviour, speech, or performance; flamboyance, exaggerated theatricality. Also: an instance of this.

figurative. Effeminacy; homosexuality or homosexual tendencies; esp. in dash, streak of lavender.