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femininity - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun noun obsolete The female form.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun womanhood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
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From Latin femina ("woman" or "female", literally, "she who suckles"). Related to Latin fellare ("to suck, suckle").
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Women who choose to remain childless are free to compete as men do but their femininity is suspect and it, rightly, pisses them off.
It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother 2009
This season's touchstone of understated femininity is soon to be passed over in favour of sexed-up, vibrant skirts and dresses, as seen at Roland Mouret, or in favour of a new androgyny championed on the catwalk by Dries Van Noten and Balenciaga.
Paris fashion week: wardrobe updates Jess Cartner-Morley 2010
Anna is extremely feminine and her femininity translates into her fashions.
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Sadly, where I live and work in science in the real world, femininity is indeed looked down on as a marker that a woman could not possibly be serious about science.
On Being a Woman and a Scientist Candid Engineer 2008
Reading this passage was the first time I found anyone put into words what I felt … which was that femininity is not at odds with intelligence and competence, that the two are perfectly able to complement each other.
WE RULE THE WORLD; WE JUST LEAVE THEM THE DRY PARTS arhyalon 2007
Masculinity, just like femininity , is a performative act.
Blog Against Sexism – Some (disjointed) thoughts on Masculinity & Masochism | Living the Liminal 2007
Thoughts on aging and femininity from a veteran cultural observer.
Cover to Cover 2006
This is not to suggest that the new clothes themselves caused changes in femininity , although it is arguable that the clothes helped women experience their bodies in new ways.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
“A short animation clip that deals with the minimizing of the abstract and subjective term femininity into statistics.”
No Fat Clips!!! : LIRON KROLL – How Much of a Woman 2008
Thoughts on aging and femininity from a veteran cultural observer.
Cover to Cover 2006
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