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Effeminate vs. Emasculate — What's the Difference?

Effeminate vs. Emasculate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Effeminate and Emasculate

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Effeminate

(of a man) having characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly
He lisps and his handshake is effeminate

Emasculate

Deprive (a man) of his male role or identity
He feels emasculated, because he cannot control his sons' behaviour

Effeminate

Having or showing qualities or characteristics more often associated with females than males; unmanly
"gentle, kind, effeminate remorse" (Shakespeare).

Emasculate

Make (someone or something) weaker or less effective
The refusal to allow them to testify effectively emasculated the committee

Effeminate

Exhibiting behaviour or mannerisms considered typical of a female; unmasculine.
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Emasculate

To castrate.

Effeminate

(obsolete) Womanly; tender, affectionate, caring.

Emasculate

To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.

Effeminate

To make womanly; to unman.

Emasculate

Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor.

Effeminate

(intransitive) To become womanly.

Emasculate

Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.

Effeminate

An effeminate person.

Emasculate

(transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.

Effeminate

Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor.
An effeminate and unmanly foppery.

Emasculate

(specifically) To remove the entire male genitalia (the testicles, scrotum, and penis) of (a person or animal).

Effeminate

Womanlike; womanly; tender; - in a good sense.
Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse.

Emasculate

(transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

Effeminate

To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds.

Emasculate

Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.

Effeminate

To grow womanish or weak.
In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and manners corrupt.

Emasculate

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

Effeminate

Having unsuitable feminine qualities

Emasculate

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Luxury had not emasculated their minds.

Effeminate

Characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence;
An effeminate civilization

Emasculate

Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

Emasculate

Deprive of strength or vigor;
The Senate emasculated the law

Emasculate

Remove the testicles of a male animal

Emasculate

Having unsuitable feminine qualities

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