feminity

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English femynyte, from Middle French feminite; compare femininity.

Noun

feminity (countable and uncountable, plural feminities)

1. (archaic) Synonym of femininity
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     vnto Psyche with great trust and care / Committed her, yfostered to bee, / And trained vp in true feminitee […]