Effete vs Otiose - What's the difference?
effete | otiose |
(label) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
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Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
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Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
Effeminate.
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Resulting in no effect.
Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
Having no reason for being (); having no point, reason, or purpose.
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(first two senses)
As adjectives the difference between effete and otiose
is that effete is (label) of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out while otiose is resulting in no effect.effete
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Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Nature is not effœte , as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed.
- Amid the effete monarchies and princedoms of feudal Europe, morally and materially exhausted by the Thirty Years' War, the only hope of resistance to France lay in the little Republic of merchants, Holland.
- a good-humored, effete boy brought up by maiden aunts.
Derived terms
* effetely * effetenessotiose
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs before seven; and they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney – just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago;
