Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EF-FEM'IN-A-CY, n. [from effeminate.]

1. The softness, delicacy and weakness in men, which are characteristic of the female sex, but which in males are deemed a reproach; unmanly delicacy; womanish softness or weakness. Milton.
2. Voluptuousness; indulgence in unmanly pleasures; lasciviousness. Taylor.