unmanliness

English

Etymology

From unmanly +‎ -ness.

Noun

unmanliness (countable and uncountable, plural unmanlinesses)

1. The property of being unmanly; sissiness.
   • 1878, Edward Hayes Plumptre, transl., Aias, lines 1015–1017:

     Reproaching me as bastard, captive-born,
     Who, in my coward, base unmanliness
     Abandoned thee, Ο Aias, […]

Antonyms

• manliness

Related terms

• manliness
• manly
• unmanly

Translations

the property of being unmanly

• Finnish: epämiehekkyys
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀνανδρία f (anandría)

• Irish: mífhearúlacht f