womanliness
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈwʊmənlɪnəs/
:
feminidad
- Feel the roundness, the womanliness.
- masquerade of womanliness
Examples
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The nurturing nature of her sister is a true reflection of her womanliness.
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To answer the core question: What is the Art of Womanliness?
Blog text (23) -
A womanliness that you've probably never felt before.
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But it's also wrong-headed to think that womanliness has nothing to do with manliness.
Blog text (23) -
But the portraits minimize her womanliness, emphasizing instead her status and prestige in a male role.
Academic text (1993) -
Just like traditional manliness, recovering traditional womanliness will require sorting through which is the baby and which is the bathwater.
Blog text (23) -
Paradoxically, these desires cause women to don "the mask of womanliness" to avert anxiety and guilt.
Fiction book (1993) -
Handmade beads with lace ornaments accent elegant retro style and gentle womanliness.
Blog text (13) -
In literature, womanliness often embodies qualities like kindness and empathy.
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She expresses her womanliness through her gentle approach to teaching children.
Synonyms
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3.4
A set of qualities often seen in women, like gentleness and grace
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3.6
The state of being an adult female and the common experiences that come with it
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7.0
Qualities and feelings that show a person is an adult female
Qualities or style people think belong to women, like gentle manner and dress
The state of being a woman
Antonyms
How Feminine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word womanliness is made from the parts woman + -ly + -ness, and woman comes from old English words meaning 'wife' and 'person'. So womanliness means the 'quality' of being womanly, for example gentleness, caring, and quiet strength.