(n.) The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.
(n.) The female form.
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.
Womanhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
(n.) Women, collectively; womankind.
Example Sentences:
(1) After failing to get elected in 2005, she was made a peer in 2007, and became a Tory role model for emancipated modern Muslim womanhood.
(2) Since black womanhood is apparently all in the look, our society would rather have white, former Disney pop stars twerk , talentless celebrities with enlarged backsides and their equally talentless siblings with swollen lips than celebrate the black woman’s form with the person who carries it.
(3) Rachel Dolezal may have perfected her performance of black womanhood, and she may be connected to black communities and feel an affinity with the styles and cultural innovations of black people.
(4) Or, as Benilde Little says in her essay Michelle in High Cotton: “She [is] part of my tribe.” The 16 writers in this book, including Ava DuVernay, Damon Young, Roxane Gay and another black first lady, Chirlane McCray, in personal, critical and conversational essays revel in what it means for Michelle to have been “first” – and with that milestone, a symbol of black womanhood, interpreted infinite ways.
(5) Circumcision in Maasai culture marks the transition from girlhood to womanhood, so in order to encourage people to move away from female genital cutting we have developed an alternative rite of passage, in which the girl experiences all the elements of the ceremony but is not cut.
(6) Dolezal’s specious claims to black ancestry and faux black identity could not have been sustained and she would not have been able to pass if black womanhood were seen and understood as more than skin – or weave – deep.
(7) Sadly for any potential babe-botherers out there, the film is actually a dispassionate coming-of-age indie flick set in a washed-out town on the west coast of Sweden, where two teenage girls attempt to navigate the psychological minefield of those strange years just before womanhood.
(8) Female solidarity, in which womanhood alone is the high ace in victimhood poker, is often seen as the most important thing.
(9) The very diverse glories in 2013, to judge from the 93 varieties of womanhood in Project Bush.
(10) Public health was then seen as compatible with the ideology of womanhood, a legitimate way for middle-class women to participate in public life.
(11) But from experience, I suspect that unless I camp overnight to get a good spot at the front, the women’s march on Washington will be less a wonderful, uplifting celebration of womanhood, than five hours of shouting, “What did she say?” to the woman standing next to me and a lot of anxiety about where to go to the toilet.
(12) To explore the meaning of caring for nursing, it is necessary to identify the terms of the relationship between caring and womanhood as these bonds have been formed over the last century.
(13) An acidic satire on the madness of 1950s America and the impossibility of living up to its contradictory ideals of womanhood, The Bell Jar is a much funnier book than its reputation as the favourite novel of morbidly self-obsessed adolescent girls suggests.
(14) You could build a towering, gleaming tribute to womanhood.
(15) "Except that Peter Pan's search for a mother is pretty reasonable whereas Bobby's idealising of womanhood is not.
(16) This was not the vision of womanhood for which Billie Jean King took to the court against Riggs.
(17) I fail to see how anyone could think she is the best and sole representative of 2,000 years of British womanhood.
(18) At a glance, women's magazines in your local newsagent will show you a white-centric display of desirable womanhood, with hair that is sleek, glossy, long and ultimately straight.
(19) When I was six, all I wanted was to be a princess, but despite their popularity in the playground, my parents made a concerted effort to temper every Disney cartoon with a more positive portrayal of womanhood.
(20) A t a recent international conference in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, a light was shed on to the practice of initiation ceremonies in which girls as young as eight are coerced to attend customary rites that “teach” them to please a man in bed as part of the preparation for womanhood.