femininity
- noun
- /ˌfɛmɪˈnɪnɪti/
- Many cultures celebrate femininity by honoring the grace and gentleness found in women.
- traditional femininity
- femininity/masculinity
- image of femininity
Last season we had a trend that mixed the code of femininity plus menswear.
- Last season we had a trend that mixed the code of femininity plus menswear.
- Pink is associated with femininity or, you know, things like that.
- It's almost like masculine is more hardened, femininity is more soft.
- So that is what in your view is femininity?
- But women like yourself that sort of accessorize their femininity, like exaggerated a little bit.
- I do believe that being selective speaks more to femininity.
- And that blocks them from again, experiencing that true freedom in their femininity.
- And to me chaos is an incredibly creative force and so is obviously Mother Nature and femininity.
- I would say, I think all of my body struggles would have to be with my hair loss and losing femininity.
- Taught that femininity is toxic, it is weak, it is bourgeois, it is not revolutionary.
- So even with respect to masculinity and femininity, some reduce it psychologically to two other terms, which are agency and communion.
Examples
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Last season we had a trend that mixed the code of femininity plus menswear.
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You are the boss, and yet you have not sacrificed one ounce of femininity.
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- ...use their femininity in business.
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Pink is associated with femininity or, you know, things like that.
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From being financially independent to explore your own femininity.
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When you are walking in your femininity, you're going to experience better things in your life in general.
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The woman in freeze frame kind of represents to me like the eternal femininity, you know?
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Like other female pop stars, Lady Gaga marshals her femininity in her performances.
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Last year I got asked to do it for the Louis Vuitton show, which was all about femininity and celebrating womanhood.
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Now, overall, we might associate femininity culturally with being more nurturing, caring.
Synonyms
The state of being a woman, girl, or an animal that can have young
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 Feminine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word femininity comes from the Latin word femina, which means 'woman', and it is the same root behind English words like female and feminine. So, femininity is the idea of 'being a woman' or the qualities people often connect with women, such as gentleness or grace.