(a.) Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
(a.) Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
(n.) A woman.
(n.) Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(2) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(3) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
(4) The connections between childhood gender nonconformity (assessed by the Freund Feminine Gender Identity Scale, or FGI) and adult genitoerotic role (assessed by a sex history) were examined.
(5) These results raise new possibilities about the time course of cellular events underlying the estrogen induction of feminine sexual behavior.
(6) A ngelina Jolie sends young women all sorts of messages: that you can both be a mom and successful businesswoman, that it’s important to take a stand on issues you care about, and that making a healthy choice “in no way diminishes [your] femininity”.
(7) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
(8) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
(9) It's like The Feminine Mystique, that, in tweet form.
(10) Self-acceptance scores were significantly lower for women scientists than for professional and student groups, and femininity scores were significantly lower for scientists than for all other groups of women.
(11) Men who adopted a submissive feminine role and women with high masculine aggressive scores were more permissive as regards drinking.
(12) The TVs were significantly higher than the OPs on role identity, indicating a more feminine identification.
(13) In the present study the capacity for liver regeneration following PH in the RH model was studied in rats of both sexes, in castrated males and in males receiving GH infusion, both treatments leading to a feminine pattern of GH secretion.
(14) The study provides important information regarding the image of nurses crossculturally and the close link between nursing and femininity.
(15) Personality differences among three self-ascribed render-role types (predominantly masculine, predominantly feminine, or no predominant orientation) were investigated within a group of 128 male and female homosexuals.
(16) The sex of the subject remained a significant predictor of both pain thresholds and tolerances after allowing for the influence of masculinity-femininity, social desirability, and their associated interactions.
(17) We want feminine power pumping up the muscles of the political skeleton of our countries like never before.
(18) We interpreted findings in terms of a tendency to self-focus that might prime feminine people to experience depression, or alternately, as a lack of self-focusing that may insulate masculine individuals from the experience of depression.
(19) Eighty-four undergraduate female students completed Baucom's Masculinity and Femininity Scales, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and the Adjective Check List.
(20) Every piece of business research that has ever been done shows that when a company puts a women on their board the company does better yet women make up 17% of the boards of FTSE 100 companies and that is a parlous state.” The broadcaster said she was inspired by more feminine values that had particularly influenced one Icelandic company, run by two women , which survived Iceland’s economic collapse a few years ago.
Gender
Definition:
(n.) Kind; sort.
(n.) Sex, male or female.
(n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
(n.) To beget; to engender.
(v. i.) To copulate; to breed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
(2) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(3) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
(4) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(5) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(7) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(8) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(9) Office of National Statistics figures published in November last year showed that men earn 9.4% more than women, the lowest gender gap since records began in 1997.
(10) A group called Campaign for Houston , which led the opposition, described the ordinance as “an attack on the traditional family” designed for “gender-confused men who … can call themselves ‘women’ on a whim”.
(11) Although complement levels varied independent of disease activity, strain-dependent and intra-strain gender-dependent differences, were detected.
(12) The mentor's administrative or academic rank, rather than gender, was the chief determinant of sponsoring effectiveness.
(13) The effects of menstrual cycle phases and gender on alprazolam pharmacokinetics were evaluated in normal volunteers.
(14) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(15) To determine the contribution of gender and race to the course of infarction, 816 patients with confirmed myocardial infarction who were enrolled in the Multicenter Investigation of the Limitation of Infarct Size (MILIS) were analyzed.
(16) The covariates included in the analysis were age, gender, socioeconomic status, and primary language.
(17) The relationships of age, gender, height, and weight to axial length of the globe were considered.
(18) There were no gender or age differences in the level of family history of alcoholism.
(19) This study investigated gender differences in acute response to alcohol.
(20) Read more “We know Tafe can be transformative for people who are doing it hard, bringing new skills to Indigenous communities, helping close the gender pay gap, empowering mature-age workers with the chance to retrain – not standing by while people from Holden and Ford are cast on the scrapheap,” Shorten will say.