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pseudofeminine

pseudofeminine adjective: feminine or apparently feminine in certain aspects, but not truly feminine.

Adjective

pseudofeminine (comparative more pseudofeminine, superlative most pseudofeminine)

  1. feminine or apparently feminine in certain aspects, but not truly feminine
    • Peter was not a "drag queen" as such, but ever since moving north from Hollywood had adopted several of their witty, pseudofeminine ways of speech […]2012, Bernard Duncan Mayes, Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest, page 158
    • As a result, nouns of this kind are likely to be interpreted and treated as feminine. Thus, Mifsud calls them pseudo-feminine collective Semitic nouns.2018, George Farrugia, Grammatical Gender in Maltese

Forms of pseudofeminine

comparativemore pseudofeminine
superlativemost pseudofeminine

Origin of pseudofeminine

From pseudo- + feminine.

Questions about pseudofeminine

What does pseudofeminine mean?
Pseudofeminine means feminine or apparently feminine in certain aspects, but not truly feminine.
What part of speech is pseudofeminine?
Pseudofeminine is an adjective.

Words near pseudofeminine in the dictionary

  1. pseudofeces
  2. pseudofeculant
  3. pseudofeebleminded
  4. pseudofeeblemindedness
  5. pseudofeet
  6. pseudofeminine
  7. pseudofeminism
  8. pseudofeminisms
  9. pseudofeminist
  10. pseudofeminists
  11. pseudofermion

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