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, […]

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