(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.
Girly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Avid, Boticca.com is a fashion website, which is about as girly as it gets, but you've come at it from a hard engineering background, haven't you?
(2) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(3) When I was little, I was a really girly girl who didn't like to wear trousers.
(4) The glucose infusion rate (GIR, mg.kg-1.min-1) as an index of insulin sensitivity was assessed by the euglycemic insulin clamp technique 1 (1h-post-Ex group), 3 (3h-post-Ex), 6 (6h-post-Ex) and 24 hours after exercise (24h-post-Ex), n = 8 in each group.
(5) Two of these (GIR-208 and GIR-301) abrogated all binding of radioligand to either intact placental membranes or soluble, purified IFN-gamma R. Three others (GIR-72, 76 and 94) showed moderate blocking activity (65, 59, and 49%, respectively) whereas the remaining five (GIR-57, 67, 83, 109, and 153) blocked binding to a low but significant extent (20 to 40%).
(6) The role of alpha-adrenoceptors in the regulation of glucose-induced insulin release (GIR) was investigated in islets of normal and neonatally streptozotocin-injected non-insulin-dependent diabetic rats (STZ).
(7) Patient response was assessed by global improvement rating (GIR) based on changes in seizure frequency, EEG findings, and nonparoxysmal clinical manifestations.
(8) Were Brian Blessed to complain angrily and defensively enough that he "didn't come across as effeminate", he would gradually start to seem girly.
(9) We conclude that intrapancreatic GIR nerves also occur in the mouse and the rat.
(10) But they said, 'Vic, filming the top of the head of a young person who just wants to get on with her work and stop for occasional girly chats with her friends just isn't interesting.'"
(11) The glucose infusion rate (GIR) in the hyperglycemic clamp technique was higher (P less than .05).
(12) I went from being a girly swot to having the time of my life."
(13) "In fact, Greg will be away overnight so Gaia and I will be able to have a girly evening together.
(14) Blood glucose levels and glucose infusion rates (GIR) were continuously monitored, and glucose turnover was estimated using a [3H]glucose infusion.
(15) We report here the sequence of one of these cDNA clones (clone 4.2), renamed here as glucocorticoid-induced receptor (GIR), which encodes a potential new member of the family of receptors that couple to G-proteins.
(16) Glucose infusion rates (GIR) increased during insulin infusion but were not different between groups at any insulin infusion rate.
(17) Net increase in AIR, glucose disappearance rate after glucose pulse, and GIR were significantly and positively correlated to the net increase in erythrocyte magnesium content calculated after chronic magnesium supplementation to diet.
(18) GIR of DWA2114R by the serial administration was higher than that of CBDCA at the doses to induce the same toxicity which was estimated by body weight loss.
(19) In his video “Experimenting ” he splits his face in two with eyeliner, using “pretty pink Barbie blush” on the right – a “girly-girl look”, and gothic black lips and purple eyes on the left, to talk about the assumptions people will make based on your appearance.
(20) Any colour is better than pink, but these robust choices hardly strike one as girly.