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The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.
Rachel Cusk

Meaning of "femininity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FEMININITY

femininity  [ˌfɛmɪˈnɪnɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FEMININITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Femininity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FEMININITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of femininity in the English dictionary

The definition of femininity in the dictionary is the quality of being feminine. Other definition of femininity is womanhood.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FEMININITY


affinity
əˈfɪnɪtɪ
alkalinity
ˌælkəˈlɪnɪtɪ
asininity
ˌæsɪˈnɪnɪtɪ
caninity
kəˈnɪnɪtɪ
concinnity
kənˈsɪnɪtɪ
consanguinity
ˌkɒnsæŋˈɡwɪnɪtɪ
crystallinity
ˌkrɪstəˈlɪnɪtɪ
divinity
dɪˈvɪnɪtɪ
felinity
fɪˈlɪnɪtɪ
feminity
fɛˈmɪnɪtɪ
infinity
ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪ
Latinity
ləˈtɪnɪtɪ
masculinity
ˌmæskjʊˈlɪnɪtɪ
peregrinity
ˌpɛrɪˈɡrɪnɪtɪ
salinity
səˈlɪnɪtɪ
sanguinity
sæŋˈɡwɪnɪtɪ
saturninity
ˌsætəˈnɪnɪtɪ
trinity
ˈtrɪnɪtɪ
vicinity
vɪˈsɪnɪtɪ
virginity
vəˈdʒɪnɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FEMININITY

feminality
feminazi
femineity
feminie
feminility
feminine
feminine ending
feminine hygiene
feminine rhyme
femininely
feminineness
femininism
feminisation
feminise
feminism
feminist
feministic
feminity
feminization
feminize

WORDS THAT END LIKE FEMININITY

aminity
aquilinity
Blessed Trinity
bovinity
chlorinity
Christianity
clandestinity
community
convicinity
electron affinity
equinity
Holy Trinity
humanity
hypersalinity
inquilinity
opportunity
saccharinity
the divinity
unity
vanity

Synonyms and antonyms of femininity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FEMININITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «femininity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of femininity

Translation of «femininity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FEMININITY

Find out the translation of femininity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of femininity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «femininity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

女性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

feminidad
570 millions of speakers

English

femininity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्त्रीत्व
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأنوثة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

женственность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

feminilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নারীত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

féminité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kewanitaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Weiblichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

女であること
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

여성성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Femininity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính chất đàn bà
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இயல்பையும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्त्रीत्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kadınlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

femminilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kobiecość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жіночність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

feminitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θηλυκότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vroulikheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kvinnlighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

femininitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of femininity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FEMININITY»

The term «femininity» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.737 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FEMININITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «femininity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «femininity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about femininity

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10 QUOTES WITH «FEMININITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word femininity.
1
Jamie Anne Allman
I've kind of stepped into my femininity.
2
Katie Aselton
I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they're compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.
3
Monica Bellucci
Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food.
4
Carole Bouquet
A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
5
Libba Bray
We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.
6
Judith Butler
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.
7
Gwendoline Christie
I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair.
8
Margaret Smith Court
My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
9
Rachel Cusk
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.
10
Rachel Cusk
The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEMININITY»

Discover the use of femininity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to femininity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture
This introductory guide introduces the central ideas of both second-wave feminism and feminist cultural studies and demonstrates how they inform feminist debates about a range of popular forms and practices through a series of case studies ...
Joanne Hollows, 2000
2
Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of ...
This volume draws on the experiences of daily life to analyze the many guises in which intimations of inferiority are conveyed to women.
Sandra Lee Bartky, 1990
3
Masculinity and Femininity: The Taboo Dimension of National ...
The book closes with a syntesizing statement about cultural values as they are linked to sexulaity, gender and religion.
Geert Hofstede, 1998
4
Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and Cinema in ...
Such questions are explored in this collection of essays which brings together the work of prominent feminist researchers in film, media studies and social history.
Christine Gledhill, Gillian Swanson, 1996
5
Femininity
With intelligence and humor, Susan Brownmiller explores the history and unspoken rules of the burden of “feminine perfection” What is femininity?
Susan Brownmiller, 2013
6
Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth-century Art and Culture
Focusing on the visual arts and written texts, this book explores the nature of femininity and masculinity in 18th-century Britain and France.
Gillian Perry, Michael Rossington, 1994
7
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", ...
Elisabeth Bronfen, 1992
8
Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman
Each chapter encourages readers to release worldly standards and set their sights on a more worthy pursuit as they: surrender to God's love and wholeness embrace the real blueprint for beauty enjoy spectacular purpose captivate the ...
Leslie Ludy, 2008
9
Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity
On an October evening in 1614 Spanish "galleons" and fiery "serpents" burst into flame in the skies above Madrid.
Alison Weber, 1996
10
Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
DIVConsiders flight attendants as cultural icons, looking at the history of the occupation and how attendants redeployed the "glamorization" used to sell air travel to campaign for professional respect, higher wages, and women's rights./div ...
Kathleen Barry, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FEMININITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term femininity is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Can You Spot the Men in This Fashion Show?
"[Haute couture] is the most traditional and rarified strata of fashion, still dominated by corseted shapes, exaggerated femininity and fantastical ... «Mic, Jul 15»
2
FBI Says Failure in Background Check Allowed Dylann Roof to …
"[Haute couture] is the most traditional and rarified strata of fashion, still dominated by corseted shapes, exaggerated femininity and fantastical ... «Mic, Jul 15»
3
The Bride in Her Head
I like admitting that my feminism and my femininity are not fully formed or in perfect harmony. I like being a guest, for now. Aunt Bonnie, keep the ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
4
Men with female bosses become assertive to protect masculinity …
It is something that needs to be continuously bolstered, especially when it is threatened by close association with femininity,” Dr Netchaeva said ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
5
Defying Doctors, More Women With Breast Cancer Choose Double …
In an op-ed piece she said, “I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.” There is a general ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
6
If #LoveWins, What Has Lost?
Indeed, man's masculinity needs the complimentary of woman's femininity; and the woman's femininity equally needs the man's masculinity. «Patheos, Jul 15»
7
Paris couture round-up
Versace's soft romantic take on femininity set the tone for a week in which dreamy etherealism informed many of the collections. Some called it ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
8
Serena Williams and the Fear of a Dominant Black Woman
She is beautiful, strong, successful, and presents a model of femininity that is very familiar to black American communities, even if it is the ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
9
Suffering 'Orange is the New Black' Withdrawal? Check Out This …
"Wentworth" differs in its portrayal of female inmates and femininity, amplifying the many kinds of female badassery. Where "Orange" shows us ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
10
Watching the US Women's National Team Win Drove Home …
... athletics, and education, those first beneficiaries succeeded in breaking down stereotypes about femininity, sexuality, work, and sports. «RH Reality Check, Jul 15»

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