A female flatterer; a woman who praises someone excessively and insincerely.
From adulator with the feminine suffix -ess, similar to how actor/actress works, indicating a woman who adultes.
The word 'adulatress' is historically rare because it reveals how language reflects society—when flattery was seen as a feminine weakness, the word existed, but modern English has largely dropped it as gender-specific agent nouns fall out of favor.
This feminine form explicitly marks gender via suffix (-ess), a historical convention that created separate gendered agent nouns. The term carries bias by differentiating women who flatter from a (unmarked male) 'adulator.'
Avoid gendered agent nouns. Use 'adulator' or 'flatterer' for any person regardless of gender.
["adulator","flatterer","sycophant"]
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