femineity
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of femineity
1810–20; < Latin fēmine ( us ) of a woman ( fēmin ( a ) woman + -eus -eous ) + -ity
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By what trick had they crept into the very centre of that mass of femineity?
From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Her name is perhaps meant to indicate her quality of inveterate femineity.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
There was a family resemblance, but in the daughter the magic of femineity had softened the severer characteristics until they became winsome and good to look upon.
From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde
There was in the character of his countenance the femineity which Coleridge thought to be the mental constitution of true genius.
From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti
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