Word.ws English Dictionary

sissyism

sissyism noun: the quality of being a sissy.

Noun

sissyism (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a sissy.
    • Dad had also wanted to be a writer—another indication of sissyism. Only sissies want to be writers.1999, Andrei Codrescu, Laura Rosenthal, Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1998, page 227

Origin of sissyism

From sissy + -ism.

Questions about sissyism

What does sissyism mean?
Sissyism means the quality of being a sissy.
What part of speech is sissyism?
Sissyism is a noun.

Words near sissyism in the dictionary

  1. sissygasming
  2. sissygasms
  3. sissyhon
  4. sissying
  5. sissyish
  6. sissyism
  7. sissyness
  8. sissyphobia
  9. sissyphobic
  10. sist
  11. sista

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sissyism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sissyism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sissyism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.