effete
adjective
lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent.
effeteness
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a word derived from
effete.
Example Sentences
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Entrance to such a club as this requires a certain pallidness, an achromasia, a terrific effeteness peculiar to the very high-born undead.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2014
There is a shaven-headed intensity about this 2010 side that rejects the effeteness of more naturally gifted Dutch teams.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2010
It was Mr. Howells,—ever as generous in discovering new native talent as he is unflinching in reproof of the effeteness of European taste,—who first drew attention to the originality and beauty of Mr. Cawein's poetry.
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
The iconoclastic scorn of youth's idealism for the effeteness of the 'old hunkers', as Whitman called them, has rarely rung out more sharply than in the closing stanzas of Claudel's great Palm Sunday ode.
From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various
Never was the effeteness of ancient systems, the impotence of the old idealism, more conspicuous.
From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by W. R. Washington Sullivan
