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feminacy

feminacy noun: effeminacy.

Noun

feminacy (countable and uncountable, plural feminacies)

  1. (archaic) effeminacy
    • In a word, the face and the figure were not in harmony; the figure prevented you from pronouncing her to be masculine — the face took from the figure the charm of feminacy. It was the head of the young Augustus upon the form of Agrippina.1846, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lucretia; or, The Children of Night

Forms of feminacy

pluralfeminacies

Questions about feminacy

What does feminacy mean?
Feminacy means effeminacy.
What part of speech is feminacy?
Feminacy is a noun.
What is the plural of feminacy?
The plural of feminacy is feminacies.

Words near feminacy in the dictionary

  1. femifascists
  2. femin.
  3. femina
  4. feminacentric
  5. feminacies
  6. feminacy
  7. feminal
  8. feminalism
  9. feminalist
  10. feminalities
  11. feminality

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