Definition of "effemination" []

• Effeminacy; womanishness (noun)

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• "LAUREN HOWARD, PSYCHOTHERAPIST: Well, it ` s, you know, there ` s a slightly effemination to that, I mean, it ` s a slightly effeminate gesture."
• "An adult homosexual who as a child once did some needlework for a joke, sees in this later a characteristic of effemination."
• "Von Krafft-Ebing and many other writers have assumed that the characteristics of effemination and of viraginity are displayed in early childhood."