Effeminacy :: Effeminacy (n.) Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men..
Effeminate :: Effeminate (a.) Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak..
Effeminate :: Effeminate (a.) Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
Effeminate :: Effeminate (v. t.) To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
Effeminate :: Effeminate (v. i.) To grow womanish or weak.
Feminine :: Feminine (a.) Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly..
Feminine :: Feminine (a.) Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate..
Feminine :: Feminine (n.) Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix..