femaleness
- noun
- /ˈfiːmeɪlnəs/
- We all possess varying degrees of both "femaleness" and "maleness."
- femaleness and maleness
- femininity and femaleness
I mean gender like womanness, like femaleness, like like pink skirts.
- I mean gender like womanness, like femaleness, like like pink skirts.
Examples
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Breastfeeding allowed me ownership of my breasts and of my femaleness that I had never before experienced.
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Yes, maleness and femaleness, sexual difference and combination, are the obvious subjects of much of Rodin's later work.
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And what are maleness and femaleness as modes of human being in themselves?
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Her spiritual essence is her supernatural femaleness and its transforming energy.
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The bottom half represents femaleness and the primeval waters out of which the physical world was later created.
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Experts say that "gender identity," a sense of one's own maleness or femaleness, is complicated.
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How is his experience of maleness different from a woman's experience of femaleness?
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Likewise, Mary's femaleness serves as the foil to the idol's maleness.
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The pattern of earth-bound, mythic femaleness among the eastern Slavs reflected much older traditions that became fused in Russian territory.
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Her femaleness is reflected in her nurturing behavior and emotional intelligence.
Synonyms
A set of qualities often seen in women, like gentleness and grace
The state of being an adult female and the common experiences that come with it
The quality of being gentle, caring, and graceful often linked to females
Qualities and feelings that show a person is an adult female
The state of being a woman
Qualities or style people think belong to women, like gentle manner and dress
Antonyms
How Masculine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word femaleness comes from female, which goes back to the old Latin word femina meaning 'woman', and the ending -ness, meaning 'state or quality'. You can also see the same root in feminine. So, femaleness means 'the state of being female'.