unmanliness

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Etymology[edit]

From unmanly +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

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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