Feminine vs Sissyphobia - What's the difference?
feminine | sissyphobia |
Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
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(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
That which is feminine.
A woman.
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(grammar) The feminine gender.
(grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
* Latham:
A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.
* 1974 , John F. Oliven, Clinical sexuality: a manual for the physician and the professions
* 1993 , Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger, Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader (page 164)
* 2009 , Temple University. School of Communications and Theater, Communication abstracts (volume 32, issue 1)
As an adjective feminine
is .As a noun sissyphobia is
a prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.feminine
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
- Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine .
- Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
- Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine , and subject to ease and delicacy.
Synonyms
* (of the female sex): female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): caring, ladylike, nurturingAntonyms
* (of the female sex): male, manly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): butch, masculine * (grammar): masculine, neuterDerived terms
* femininely * feminineness * feminine rhyme (prosody) * femininity * feminizeNoun
(en noun)- They guide the feminines toward the palace.
- There are but few true feminines in English.
sissyphobia
English
Noun
(-)- Although a cultural reaction has begun to set in, sissyphobia still dominates present societal thinking which regards with diffidence most sensitivity, creativity, tender demeanor and confidingly close same-sex friendships in males.
- I have built my model from feminist tenets because, although as Doyle (1983), Herek (1987) and others have noted, sissyphobia is derived via projection from both misogyny and from homophobia
- Rather than merely producing a simulacrum of past decades, however, this synthetic utopia rewrites the Israeli masculinity and effeminates the cultural national agenda in regard to the politics of effeminacy, sissyness, and sissyphobia