manlessnessn.
/ˈmanləsnəs/, U.S. /ˈmænləsnəs/ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun]
arghtha1250
arghshipc1275
faintise1297
cowardicec1300
cowardshipc1330
arghness1340
arghhoodc1350
sheepnessc1380
pusillanimitya1393
cowardnessa1400
neshnessa1400
cowardyc1405
lithernessc1425
lashness1477
cowardrya1547
meagreness?1553
cowardliness1556
micropsychy1651
buzzardism1659
stanielry1659
manlessness1667
cow-heartedness1718
pusillanimousness1727
chicken-heartedness1808
infortitude1813
plucklessness1824
white-featherism1843
cold feet1893
yellow1893
liver-heartedness1897
yellowness1909
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 92 That Dread and pavid manlessness, that seised the Inhabitants.
2. The state or condition of being without a man or men.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > state or condition of being manless
manlessness1924
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > unattached woman > condition of
manlessness1924
1924 Public Opinion 7 Nov. 460/2 We find girls robbed of wholesome excitements..by the loneliness and manlessness of their lives.
1968 A. Ginsberg Coll. Poems (1984) 504 Vast meccas of manlessness.
1991 G. Greer Change xiii. 337 The..woman who cannot contemplate manlessness for the rest of her life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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