NOUN
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the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him
the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy
Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness
How To Use sissiness In A Sentence
- The fact is that any Democrat's heroic war record functions mostly as superficial innoculation against charges of sissiness during campaigns, and it's the reason you see so many more Republican chickenhawks than anti-war Dems in public office these days. Hullabaloo
- If you're willing to be prime minister without getting the public to vote for you, it's just lily-livered sissiness to let the fact your colleagues won't vote for you either stand in your way. Newmatilda.com - Comments
- His fans insisted that his naturalism and his underplaying refuted any residual sissiness that might be associated with acting.
- This sissy would like to confess their long term sissiness whilst wearing her frilly white trimmed panties and grey dress to Mistress Cassie. We Blog A Lot
- Edith B, I just checked a dictionary and found three derivative words listed below "sissy": the noun sissiness and the adjectives sissified and sissyish. Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
- And his sissiness is fertile ground for lampooning. Why can't we joke about Obama?
- And you complained about our “sissiness” while simultaneously admitting that you let your squeamishness set your politics. Homophobic men and Misogyny–do they go hand in hand?
- I sat down with the only female recruiter in the office, in the hopes that she'd be less inclined to perceive my general sissiness than her male counterparts.
- It was fun for them, besides they felt it would be a service to knock out some of the Boston “sissiness.” A Backward Glance at Eighty
- It is sissiness that frightens, enrages and offends the men.