effeteness

In his book The Time Machine, published in 1895, Wells had imagined a future race of humans that, having selected innocence and virtue as desirable traits, had inbred to the point of effeteness—degenerating into an etiolated, childlike race devoid of any curiosity or passion.

The only real difference between him and Trump is that Vlad is considerably more facile at using the levers of power to distract people both inside and outside his nation from his vacuuming up of wealth, and that facility involves casting himself as the strong right hand on the tiller of the Russian ship of state, guiding it through the treacherous waters of cosmopolitanism and effeteness.

His song, with its 2 billion YouTube views, mocks the effeteness of a generation of South Korean nouveaux-riches.

Entrance to such a club as this requires a certain pallidness, an achromasia, a terrific effeteness peculiar to the very high-born undead.

De Gea has only really made two high-profile mistakes "under the high ball", but this has been enough to draw generalised accusations of effeteness, of lacking in some vital manly quality.