(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
(2) The scale was found to have a high interrater reliability (0.93) and can therefore be used to study effeminacy quantitatively.
(3) Effeminacy and homosexuality are also linked by the belief that as a result of this role preference effeminate males are sexually interested only in masculine males with whom they play the passive sex role.
(4) There were large situational variations in expressivity of effeminacy during group meetings.
(5) Although effeminacy is recognized to be a complex and important phenomenon, until now it has been only scantily studied, and has not been clearly defined or measured.
(6) It argues that a family systems approach can grasp dimensions of the problems of transsexualism that are missed if an exclusively individual treatment approach is adopted, and concludes that a family systems approach should be part of the assessment and treatment of all children and adolescents presenting with effeminacy or transsexual problems.
(7) The treatment of an eleven-year-old boy with severe enuresis, facial tic, marked social maladjustment, passivity, and effeminacy was guided by the following principles: (1) Personality development was set in motion by encouraging age- and gender-appropriate behavior, by providing and identification model, and by upholding values which reflect normal male behavior.
(8) Committed to the vertical approach, Capote was at pains to present each of the men in three dimensions, and in researching Smith's backstory he discovered disturbing echoes of his own past life: they both had promiscuous, alcoholic mothers and incompetent, largely absent fathers; they were both brought up in foster-homes; they were both ridiculed as children – Capote for his effeminacy, Smith for his Cherokee blood and his bedwetting.
(9) In this paper, we review the literature and present an Effeminacy Rating Scale that quantifies the behavioral fragments comprising the overall clinical picture of effeminacy.
(10) Those studies supporting the effeminacy-actor relationship were seriously flawed both in design (e.g., use of indirect measures to infer homosexuality) and interpretation of the data.
(11) These results are discussed in terms of their implications for the validation of the DAP procedure, their contribution to an understanding of boyhood effeminacy, and their implications for the role of the DAP test as a clinical assessment procedure only in conjunction with other sources of information.
(12) Psychoanalytic theory has tended to further promulgate the linkage between effeminacy, homosexuality, and acting.
(13) Interrater reliability with the Effeminacy Scale for two nonprofessional raters viewing the same videotaped material from the group was 0.93 (Pearson r).
(14) The sharply dichotomized gender roles and the cultural formulation linking effeminacy and homosexuality appear to provide the necessary conditions for the development of sex-role preferences in many societies.
(15) From the beginning of my career I was made aware of my effeminacy – often being interrupted during early gigs with "Are you gay?"
(16) Hindu extremism is rooted in a macho 20th-century response to British colonialism which mocked Hindu "effeminacy".
(17) In Part II, effeminacy in an in vivo social situation was studied and the Effeminacy Scale described in Part I was tested.
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Definition:
(n.) Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
(n.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy.