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Meaning of "effeteness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EFFETENESS

effeteness  [ɪˈfiːtnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EFFETENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Effeteness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EFFETENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of effeteness in the English dictionary

The definition of effeteness in the dictionary is effete quality.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EFFETENESS


acuteness
əˈkjuːtnɪs
alertness
əˈlɜːtnɪs
astuteness
əˈstjuːtnɪs
brightness
ˈbraɪtnɪs
completeness
kəmˈpliːtnɪs
curtness
ˈkɜːtnɪs
discreteness
dɪsˈkriːtnɪs
expertness
ˈɛkspɜːtnɪs
fitness
ˈfɪtnɪs
hotness
ˈhɒtnɪs
incompleteness
ˌɪnkəmˈpliːtnɪs
irresoluteness
ɪˈrɛzəluːtnɪs
neatness
ˈniːtnɪs
pertness
ˈpɜːtnɪs
resoluteness
ˈrɛzəluːtnɪs
shortness
ˈʃɔːtnɪs
smartness
ˈsmɑːtnɪs
tartness
ˈtɑːtnɪs
tautness
ˈtɔːtnɪs
witness
ˈwɪtnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EFFETENESS

effectuation
effeir
effeminacy
effeminate
effeminately
effeminateness
effeminize
effendi
efference
efferent
efferently
effervesce
effervescence
effervescency
effervescent
effervescently
effervescible
effete
effetely
efficacious

WORDS THAT END LIKE EFFETENESS

adhesiveness
appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
doneness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of effeteness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «effeteness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EFFETENESS

Find out the translation of effeteness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of effeteness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «effeteness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

effeteness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

effeteness
570 millions of speakers

English

effeteness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

effeteness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

effeteness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

effeteness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

effeteness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নির্জীবতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

effeteness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Effeteness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

effeteness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

effeteness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

effeteness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Effeteness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

effeteness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

effeteness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उत्साहा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

effeteness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

effeteness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

effeteness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

effeteness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

effeteness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξάντλησις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

effeteness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

effeteness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

effeteness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of effeteness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EFFETENESS»

The term «effeteness» is used very little and occupies the 187.487 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EFFETENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «effeteness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «effeteness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about effeteness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EFFETENESS»

Discover the use of effeteness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to effeteness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Militant Publics in India: Physical Culture and Violence in ...
1 Efficacies of Political Action: Physical Culture and the Kinesthetic Politics of Gandhian Nationalism 1. “The Self-Image of Effeteness: Physical Education and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Bengal,” Past and Present, no. 86 (1980). 2. Ibid.
Arafaat A. Valiani, 2011
2
Conceptualizing Metaphors: On Charles Peirce’s Marginalia
In each metaphor is a nucleus of effeteness. This is the code of similarity. The general law of frequent likenesses, accumulated and compiled as an experience of making comparisons, is 'saved' there. The rest of the metaphor consists of the ...
Ivan Mladenov, 2014
3
Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and The' ...
See Rosselli, 'The Self-Image of Effeteness', pp. 121-48. Ibid. For a discussion of the 'male body' and Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century, see Alter, ' Celibacy, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Gender. See Bengalis as They ...
Mrinalini Sinha, 1995
4
Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan
The Fujiwara, Taira, and Mojo clans were all ruined by the effeteness of their sons, who were raised in luxury. It is also said that the long decline of imperial authority from the medieval period was due to the effeteness of the court nobility, just ...
Richard Calichman, 2008
5
College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era
Notions of the Ivy League's effeteness so successfully colored national perceptions of football reform that the Ivy League haunted proponents of big-time football like a specter to be avoided at all costs. When considering Ohio State's decision ...
Kurt Edward Kemper, 2009
6
Anthropological review
If there be any truth in the foregoing views, it must be at once obvious that the Irish problem is not institutional but racial, and that the unfortunate speciality of the Sister Isle is not primarily mis- government, but racial effeteness, the effect of  ...
7
FRINGE NATIONS IN SOCCER
Iran was of course not the only country in which reformers associated national effeteness with insufficient taste for physical exercise. For the case of France, see Weber, France, Fin de Siècle, Chap. 11, 'Faster, Higher, Stronger'. For India, see  ...
Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Sabyasachi Mallick, 2013
8
William Carlos Williams
If the situation is not self—evident, the 'cry' is hollow: musical in the limited, abstract sense. The Swinburnian 'voice' in poetry is the effeteness of the objective —correlative; nothing but the 'cry,' the typical epithet and the closed vocabulary, ...
Crane Doyle, 2013
9
The Anthropological Review
If there be any truth in the foregoing views, it must be at once obvious that the Irish problem is not institutional but racial, and that the unfortunate speciality of the Sister Isle is not primarily mis- government, but racial effeteness, the effect of  ...
10
From Revolution to Fads: The Progress of Modernity
Rather, it is essentially an outgrowth of boredom; and also it is a sign of the effeteness which had set into the French aristocracy from its failure to fulfill its traditional, relevant, role in French society. Such effeteness sapped the energy and ...
Henry Berry, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EFFETENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term effeteness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
EMA Ranks Top Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Solutions
"The breadth of storage supported, the completeness of independent storages services and the degree of cost effeteness were all considered ... «Benzinga, Jul 15»
2
Gay-rights pioneer, playwright Kramer subject of new HBO doc
Throughout the film, Kramer is as fiery as a biblical preacher railing against apathy and effeteness, going so far as to call his fellow homosexuals “sissies” for not ... «Jewish Journal, Jun 15»
3
From effeminate Hindus to virile men
... self-control, and discipline of the body Vivekananda provided a counter discourse to oppose the colonial construction of Hindu effeteness. «The Statesman, Jun 15»
4
Mark Morris Dance Group review (Sydney Opera House)
And yet … today, as his dancers trip with joy, arms limp over heads, the sweetness, the effeteness, is a little cloying. But beautiful to admire. «Daily Review, Jun 15»
5
Queen Latifah, at long last, gives us a cinematic life of Bessie Smith
To convey the singer's reaction to the event's effeteness and condescension, she finds out that Van Vechten was going to write about her in a ... «Buffalo News, May 15»
6
How Mark Leckey became the artist of the YouTube generation
“I was suspicious of art's effeteness. I still felt I had to maintain my masculine credibility”. Then, in the second year suddenly everything ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
7
Richer than God – crazy lives of the Asian super rich
First, one scrambles for wealth; then one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.'' She tells AFR Weekend that satirical novels ... «The Australian Financial Review, Mar 15»
8
The pride of a poodle
All this helped create the image of poodles as representing weakness, effeteness and servility. That's the cartoonish picture I grew up with, ... «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»
9
Farinelli and the King, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, review: 'the …
In this short scene, Rylance somehow combines languor, petulance, effeteness, lubriciousness, warmth and vulnerability. He lulls you into a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
10
BRUCE FEIN: Sony Pictures should reverse itself on 'The Interview'
In sum, Hollywood, thy name is effeteness. President Obama correctly rebuked Sony for permitting a dictator abroad to censor speech in the ... «Washington Times, Dec 14»

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