Feminineness

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fem·i·nine (f

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adj.

1. Of or relating to women or girls. See Synonyms at female.

2. Characterized by or possessing qualities generally attributed to a woman.

3. Effeminate; womanish.

4. Grammar Designating or belonging to the gender of words or grammatical forms that refer chiefly to females or to things classified as female.

n. Grammar

1. The feminine gender.

2. A word or form belonging to the feminine gender.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fminnus, from fmina, woman; see dh(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

femi·nine·ly adv.

femi·nine·ness n.

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Noun

feminineness - the properties characteristic of the female sex

femaleness

sexuality, gender, sex - the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"

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