femininity

noun
/fɛmɪˈnɪnɪti/

Etymology

From Middle English femynynytee, femyninytee, variants of femynyte (archaic modern English feminity), equivalent to feminine + -ity.

  1. inherited from femynynytee

Definitions

  1. The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.

    • A contributing factor to this slightly regressive femininity may have been the sugary fabrics (silver lamé, tulle over sequins) and the meringuelike puffs and baby Googums bows at the neck.
    • One outcome of the idea of fluid masculinity and femininity is the notion of genderqueerness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for femininity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA