(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.
Ladylike
Definition:
(a.) Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
(a.) Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners.
(a.) Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally it has been confirmed that Cheryl Cole , the formerly punchy but now ever-so-ladylike doyenne of British showbiz, is shipping out to Los Angeles to take her place on the US X Factor judging panel.
(2) They can look downright ladylike, even sexy, and this has caused the high street to go shorts-crazy.
(3) This early reporting of the suffragette movement by the Guardian, edited through a male Liberal view that thought women could earn their enfranchisement if they engaged in reasoned debate and behaved in a ladylike manner, set the tone for much that was to follow.
(4) Students were required to live in nursing homes, be in their rooms at certain hours, dress in very restrictive uniforms and ever strive to be ladylike.
(5) Which makes me wonder: if philosophy is to be more "gender friendly", do philosophers have first to act, well, if not in more "ladylike" fashion, then at least with greater decorum?
(6) Austen was marketed as a universal Aunt Jane in a perfect Hampshire cottage – sweet, cosy, ladylike, amateur and unthreatening.
(7) This year's Tangled brought in " Disney Princess " No 10, Rapunzel, but despite a bit of pop-culture attitude, her ultimate fate is to be ladylike, marry a prince and live happily ever after in her newfound patriarchal milieu, just like her predecessors.
(8) In person she is dainty, almost exaggeratedly ladylike, and much more playfully ambivalent than the public debate about her book.
(9) Before he leaves at 10pm, someone suggests that, since they are still bigging up the ladylike look, the fashion press may not go a bundle on the grungy baby-doll dresses, plaid shirts and biker boots that Slimane sent down the catwalk.
(10) Kate Pool, its deputy chief executive, said: “She was amazing – very quiet, controlled, genteel, ladylike, polite, old-fashioned – she didn’t suffer fools gladly, but was amazingly kind.
(11) These results suggest that social assessments made about female sport participation within high school status systems remain heavily influenced by traditional beliefs regarding feminine, "ladylike" behavior.
(12) Her self-deprecating, acerbic jokes were sliced out in the edit suite; vulgar remarks that were deemed insufficiently ladylike were excised from her column.