Definition of Sissiness

1. Noun. The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man). "He was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him"

Exact synonyms: Effeminacy, Effeminateness, Softness, Unmanliness, Womanishness
Generic synonyms: Femininity, Muliebrity
Specialized synonyms: Emasculation
Language type: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement
Derivative terms: Effeminate, Sissy, Unmanly, Unmanly, Womanish

Definition of Sissiness

1. Noun. The property of being sissy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sissiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sissiness

sismometers
sismotherapy
sisomicin
sisomicin-gentamicin resistance ribosomal RNA methylase
sisomicin sulfate
siss
sisses
sissier
sissies
sissiest
sissification
sissified
sissifies
sissify
sissifying
sissiness
sissinesses
sissoo
sissoos
sissu
sissy
sissyish
sissyness
sissynesses
sissyphobia
sist
sisted
sister
sister-in-law
sister-in-laws

Literary usage of Sissiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment : Massachusetts 1841 by Charles Albert Murdock (1921)
"It was fun for them, besides they felt it would be a service to knock out some of the Boston "sissiness." I do not doubt it was. ..."

2. The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Braddy Henney (1922)
"... of sissiness, snobbishness, or weak-mindedness. Formal dinners and other ceremonious functions require evening dress. It is the custom, as the Orientals ..."

3. Banner Bearers: Tales of the Suffrage Campaigns by Oreola Williams Haskell (1920)
""Then where's the sissiness of standing up for woman suffrage ? It strikes me the Sissies were on the sidewalk, not daring to avow themselves, although they ..."

4. The Spirit of Nature Study: A Book of Social Suggestion and Sympathy for All by Edward Fuller Bigelow (1907)
"Such manliness always strives to avoid sissiness by leering in the faces and gazing at the ankles of the sisters who pass the corner or cross the street. ..."

5. The Proof of the Pudding by Meredith Nicholson (1916)
"forbearing amid jealousy, and indifferent to contumely; zealous, watchful, polite, without, let us say, sissiness. Manners, my dear boy, are appraised far ..."

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