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as in effeminacy
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as in tenderness
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Noun
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This horror at effeminacy echoes across Baldwin’s novels and essays.—
Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025 -
The researchers theorized this could be in part because of greater stigma toward effeminacy in boys than masculinity in girls.—
Benjamin Ryan,
NBC News,
4 Oct. 2023
Noun
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An opening to tenderness or vulnerability as a demonstration of trust, versus paranoia’s closing off as an exercise in self protection.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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But there was a tenderness to it and a levity and humor.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Instead of the sharp contrasting flavors that a traditional spritz provides, this one is all about umami, minerality, and a softness that suits the way most people want to drink during the winter.—
Chadner Navarro,
Vogue,
10 Feb. 2026
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Kitsch's bar shampoo was developed for results including softness, manageability, and curl definition, outcomes that customers prioritize when selecting hair care items.—
Krysta Escobar,
CNBC,
10 Feb. 2026
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But these songs are also honest, sometimes despite themselves, about the feelings of impotence associated with watching history play out on a screen.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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Those include epidural steroid injections for pain management, cervical fusion, diagnosis and treatment of impotence, and skin and tissue substitutes.—
Jillian Taylor,
StateImpact,
16 Jan. 2026
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In psychological terms, displacement occurs when complex fear, anger, or helplessness is redirected toward a more available target.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Feb. 2026
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Constant approvals feel like safety but create latency and helplessness.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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This oscillation between rage at one’s own powerlessness and fantasies of violence is the song’s motive force.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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Dead Man’s Wire demonstrates the ultimate powerlessness of both captor and captive.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2026
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As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
17 Aug. 2022
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Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
12 Nov. 2021
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“Effeteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effeteness. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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