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FEMININENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does feminineness mean?
• FEMININENESS (noun)
The noun FEMININENESS has 1 sense:
1. the properties characteristic of the female sex
Familiarity information: FEMININENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The properties characteristic of the female sex
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
femaleness; feminineness
Hypernyms ("feminineness" is a kind of...):
gender; sex; sexuality (the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles)
Derivation:
feminine (associated with women and not with men)
feminine (befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman)
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