femaleness
- a word derived from female.
Example Sentences
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There’s a plea in there — not for genderlessness, exactly, but for a freedom of narrative movement that femaleness, as conventionally written, impairs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
This is a film about class and gender and femaleness and youth and unwanted attention that makes the smallest moments come alive with humanity.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2020
I've done my best to shield them from the dysfunctional attitudes and anxiety that seem to be an expected part of performing the role of femaleness in our culture.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2019
Douglass cut to the central fallacy of the white suffragist push — that African-American women could magically separate their blackness from their femaleness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2018
It was here, at a Lagos salon, that the different ranks of imperial femaleness were best understood.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
