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Femininity   /fˌɛmənˈɪnəti/   Listen
noun
Femininity  n.  
1.
The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.
2.
The female form. (Obs.) "O serpent under femininitee."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... hoping that he would find the perfect woman, able to understand him. At last he did find her, so he thought, in the person of a young woman of twenty-five, a consummate mistress of the arts of femininity. She sized him up at once, played on his vanity, extolled his fine tastes and never exposed a single crudity of her own, until she brought him to the point where his passion for her, his conviction that he had found "the perfect woman," led him to propose marriage. Then ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... receive. At that moment it seemed as though her sex possessed her to the exclusion of everything outside. Her eyes were soft and filled with the desire of love, her lips sweet and tremulous. She had suddenly created a new atmosphere around her, an atmosphere of bewildering and passionate femininity. ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... and on his arms a cock and a skeleton, the latter with a fan and a lantern. On his belly was limned a nude woman. He had certain other decorations the fame of which had been bruited wide so that a keen curiosity existed to see them, and they were discussed in whispers by white femininity and with many "Aucs!" of astonishment by the brown. They were Pompeiian friezes in their ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... to quiet the nipper in his box. I saw even then that, domineering though I may be, I should probably never care to bring the child's condition to her notice again. There was something about her—something volcanic in her femininity. I knew it would never do. Better let the thing continue to be a monstrosity! I might, unnoticed, of course, snatch a bun from its grasp ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... all this is changed. We have been so taken up with the phenomena of masculinity and femininity, that our common humanity has largely escaped notice. We know we are human, naturally, and are very proud of it; but we do not consider in what our humanness consists; nor how men and women may fall short of it, or overstep its bounds, in continual insistence upon their special differences. ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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