effeteness

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Definition of effeteness in English English dictionary: The property of being effete; {i} exhaustion, state of being worn out
effete: Decadent, self-indulgent; effeminate
effete: Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent
effete: Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out
Nature is not effœte, as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed.
effete: exhausted, as having performed its functions
effete: {a} barren, worn out with ge, very weak
effete: No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile
effete: disapproval If you describe someone as effete, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless. the charming but effete Russian gentry of the 1840s and 1850s
effete: marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
effete: Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, infertile
effete: {s} degenerate, decadent; worn out, exhausted
effete: decadent, self-indulgent, effeminate

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