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femmeness

noun

Etymology

From femme + -ness.

  1. borrowed from femme
  2. suffixed as femmeness — “femme + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being femme.

    • What is the appeal of femmeness since it doesn't have the obvious attractions of maleness, i.e. power and privilege, associated with it?
    • Some femmes share heterosexual pasts, some pass through butchness before they arrive at femmeness, some move back and forth between boy identities and woman identities.
    • I suggest that anyone who is queer and feels an affinity toward femmeness has a legitimate claim to it.

The neighborhood

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