womanliness

English

Etymology

From womanly +‎ -ness.

Noun

womanliness (countable and uncountable, plural womanlinesses)

1. The condition of being a woman; femininity.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 21:

     As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

Antonyms

• manliness

Translations

femininity — see femininity