effeteness
- noun
- /ɪˈfɛtənəs/
- Formal
:
debilidad
- The team's effeteness was evident in their inability to compete effectively against stronger opponents.
Examples
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Congratulations on epitomizing ineffectuality and modern effeteness.
Blog text (17) -
Staying with the faintness of these memories represents the effeteness of romanticism, its pathology.
Academic text (1998) -
The liberalism, which in the news media is central, is generally absent (we almost never learn anything about movie professors' political beliefs), while the effeteness is central.
Academic text (2007) -
A few other flowers may be as sweet, but jasmine is sweet without sentiment, sweet without effeteness, sweet without compromise; it is aggressively sweet, outrageously sweet: "I am sweet," says the jasmine, "and if you don't like it, you can kiss my sweet ass."
Fiction book (1990) -
Many criticized the government for its effeteness in addressing urgent social issues.
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The writer's effeteness became apparent as he lost the drive and energy to create compelling narratives.
Synonyms
78
3.6
Extreme physical or mental tiredness after hard work
20
3.1
A strong feeling of being very tired in body or mind
12
6.3
A feeling of tiredness and low energy
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4.4
A state of being slow and having little energy
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9.3
A feeling of being very tired and having little energy
1
8.7
A sudden physical or mental collapse that happens from extreme tiredness
1
4.8
A state of being physically weak because of age or illness
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8.2
Weakness in the body that follows illness or old age
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9.1
A slow loss of strength in the body or mind
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8.1
A serious loss of strength and energy that makes someone weak
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9.9
A state of being inactive and lacking energy
A feeling of great weakness and tiredness
A lack of energy and strength that often follows an illness
A poor physical condition from little exercise and unhealthy living
Antonyms
How Weak
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Effeteness comes from Latin parts ex- ('out') and fetus ('to bring forth' or 'offspring'), so it originally meant something that had already produced and was used up. Imagine a field that has given its crops and is now empty and weak—this picture explains the idea. So, effeteness means being 'worn out' or no longer strong.