feminine
adjective
being or relating to to a woman or girl.
feminineness
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a word derived from
feminine.
Example Sentences
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They seem, at first, to take from the exquisite feminineness of the character, but they bring out the latent beauty and strength of her spiritual nature.
From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Eliza Buckminster Lee
Her greatest charm was the exquisite feminineness of her character: this perhaps, without religion, would have degenerated into weakness, or, without an enlightened reason, into superstition.
From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Eliza Buckminster Lee
You could not say she was masculine, but there was a something stripped away from her which most people class as feminineness.
From The Wishing-Ring Man by Margaret Widdemer
