Edit: properly moved the original as a reply to abraininavat. On the topic of your post: I was (more or less) using effeminate to mean "not masculine", with ma

Edit: properly moved the original as a reply to abraininavat. On the topic of your post: I was (more or less) using effeminate to mean "not masculine", with maybe some connotative meaning thrown in. This seems to be standard usage based upon my extensive perusal of the copious amounts of information available at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/effeminate http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/effeminate