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sissy behavior

slang for effeminate behavior in boys, which is often a source of ridicule by others. See role confusion; tomboyism.

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inner estrangement

inner estrangement

the feeling that external objects are unfamiliar and unreal. [defined by Austrian psychoanalyst Paul Federn (1871–1950)]