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Meanings of femininity in English
Set of qualities, characteristics or roles traditionally associated with femaleness.
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Examples for "womanhood"
Examples for "womanhood"
1
A place to hide from my womanhood, my past and my future?
2
It is the real diadem of womanhood, Norman; she knows no other.
3
The womanhood in her liked the tribute, almost more than liked it.
4
And then it came, the great dividing line between childhood and womanhood.
5
Most of the fair romancers have in their early womanhood chosen love-names.
1
Two days have never, in the history of womankind, gone so quickly.
2
It's a question that has plagued womankind since the dawn of time.
3
He never married again; and railed on all womankind for this one.
4
Of course, I could have taken a housekeeper; but I know womankind.
5
So all the womankind repeat their Hail Marys hurrying backward and forward.
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This reverence for woman is the first and truest step towards womanliness.
2
She has been aroused to remember that womanliness is not chiefly decorative.
3
She is a Raby too, only softened down by her sweet womanliness.
4
He loved her for her sweetness, for her womanliness, for her strength.
5
Has all the sweetness, all the womanliness, gone out of your character?
1
Something of her girlishness returned to her in this moment of sincerity.
2
She had never lost the girlishness of her figure-orof her hands.
3
Possibly Demos could not have stood a presentment of girlishness unrestrained.
4
Miss Hood was a year younger than himself, and had well outgrown girlishness.
5
What gives the thing its horror, queerly enough, is the girlishness.
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Instead, we wear this as a badge of our freedom and our femaleness.
2
Hair products are but part of the costly prescription for tragic Black femaleness.
3
Apollo's great opponent Dionysus is ruler of the chthonian whose law is procreative femaleness.
4
The lesson is that cultic femaleness is no guarantee of cultural strength or viability.
5
And I want to be respected in all my femaleness.
1
Formerly known as L.A., this Brooklyn-born artist presents her fearless feminity in raps.
2
This problem of feminity and childhood which he had confronted was too much for him.
3
He seemed to catch a glimpse of dreadful depths of feminity which daunted his masculine mind.
4
I like my body. The reality star explained that fashion allows him to play up his feminity and masculinity.
5
As far as feminity is known, or can ever be known, one dominant impulse has never wavered or weakened.
1
There was a little toss in their movement, full of muliebrity.
2
The health of American wives, their muliebrity or womanly power, is sapped in various ways.
3
She had not married, I suppose because her standards were high, and men are cowards and with an instinctive appetite for muliebrity.
4
Miss Darley smiled rather faintly; the imagery was not just to her taste: femineity often finds it very hard to accept the fact of muliebrity.
Usage of femininity in English
1
I don't necessarily think people want that kind of hyper-femininity any more.
2
Sadly and regrettably my story is not one of triumph for femininity.
3
Your definition of embracing femininity is very narrow and that's really sad.
4
None of the disturbing problems that were shaking femininity disturbed her calm.
5
He could feel the warm wetness of her femininity through his breeches.
6
They can show their femininity and sweetness, he said after his show.
7
Our femininity, beauty, morals and intelligence have been tried and found lacking.
8
Honors paid to such viragoes are honors to masculinity, not to femininity.
9
And yet, somehow, this attitude only served to enhance her essential femininity.
10
His impression of femininity, weakness, need of protection, of fear even, disappeared.
11
It's my straight no chaser lust, love and worship of black femininity.
12
I think there is a conviction, a power and a femininity in that.
13
We can allow ourselves to relax and enjoy our femininity and stand tall.
14
Now the Louisiana accent had vanished; even femininity had gone from the voice.
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The inheritance of her femininity assured her that she was in no danger.
16
West Germany's DFB depicted their ban as a defence of femininity.
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Femininity through the time
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