FEMALENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does femaleness mean? 

• FEMALENESS (noun)
  The noun FEMALENESS has 1 sense:

1. the properties characteristic of the female sex

  Familiarity information: FEMALENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEMALENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The properties characteristic of the female sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

femaleness; feminineness

Hypernyms ("femaleness" is a kind of...):

gender; sex; sexuality (the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles)

Antonym:

maleness (the properties characteristic of the male sex)

Derivation:

female (being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop)

female (for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls)

female (characteristic of or peculiar to a woman)