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Meaning of "womanliness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WOMANLINESS

womanliness  [ˈwʊmənlɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WOMANLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Womanliness 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 WOMANLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of womanliness in the English dictionary

The definition of womanliness in the dictionary is femininity.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WOMANLINESS


comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
gentlemanliness
ˈdʒɛntəlmənlɪnɪs
gentlewomanliness
ˈdʒɛntəlˌwʊmənlɪnɪs
godliness
ˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
maidenliness
ˈmeɪdənlɪnɪs
manliness
ˈmænlɪnɪs
matronliness
ˈmeɪtrənlɪnɪs
oiliness
ˈɔɪlɪnɪs
silliness
ˈsɪlɪnɪs
slatternliness
ˈslætənlɪnɪs
slovenliness
ˈslʌvənlɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
ugliness
ˈʌɡlɪnɪs
ungainliness
ʌnˈɡeɪnlɪnɪs
ungodliness
ʌnˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
user-friendliness
ˌjuːzəˈfrendlɪnɪs
worldliness
ˈwɜːldlɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WOMANLINESS

woman teacher
woman-hater
woman-like
womanfully
womanhood
womanish
womanishly
womanishness
womanising
womanism
womanist
womanize
womanized
womanizer
womanizing
womankind
womanless
womanly
womanness
womanpower

WORDS THAT END LIKE WOMANLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
happiness
laziness
loneliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of womanliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «womanliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WOMANLINESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

女人味
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

womanliness
570 millions of speakers

English

womanliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

womanliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأنثوية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

женственность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

womanliness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

womanliness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

féminité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebaikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fraulichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

womanliness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

womanliness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Womanliness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

womanliness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிளாசுமா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्त्रीची वागणूक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kadınsılık
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

womanliness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

womanliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kvinnelighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of womanliness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WOMANLINESS»

The term «womanliness» is regularly used and occupies the 84.003 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WOMANLINESS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOMANLINESS»

Discover the use of womanliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to womanliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in ...
Womanliness therefore could be assumed and worn as a mask, both to hide the possession of masculinity and to avert the reprisals expected if she was found to possess it— much as a thief will turn out his pockets and ask to be searched to ...
Catherine Craft-Fairchild, 2005
2
Psychoanalysis and Female Sexuality
XII. Womanliness. as. a. Masquerade. By Joan Riviere Every direction in which psychoanalytic research has pointed seems in its turn to have attracted the interest of Ernest Jones, and now that of recent years investigation has slowly spread to ...
Hendrik Marinus Ruitenbeek, 1966
3
Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
Masquerade and Reparation: (White) Womanliness in Riviere and Klein One of the most frequently cited essays of the great debate of the 1920s is Joan Riviere's 1929 "Womanliness as a Masquerade," which has repeatedly been deployed ...
Jean Walton, 2001
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Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
Riviere does not subject to scrutiny the power relations that compel the woman to put on womanliness and become woman, an over—sight or resistance that distinguishes Riviere's analysis of masquerade from social and political critique ( cf.
Ann Pellegrini, 2014
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The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader
This case caused Riviere to publish her thoughts in her ground-breaking article entitled "Womanliness as a Masquerade" that later influenced several feminist critics such as Marv Russo and Mary Ann Doane and the French philosopher Jean ...
Amelia Jones, 2003
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Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's ...
the woman to don "the mask of womanliness to avert anxiety and the retribution feared from men" (1929, 303). As Riviere saw it, for a woman to read an academic paper before a professional association was to exhibit in public her " possession ...
Lynda Hart, 1989
7
Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
Riviere had argued not only that "women who wish for masculinity may put on a mask of womanliness to avert anxietv and the retribution feared from men," but also that it was impossible to separate womanliness feom masquerade: The reader ...
Marjorie B. Garber, 1997
8
Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing
Even more, I want to press these polemicists by asking whether ultimately womanliness, which they value more than anything else in a woman, represents a quality peculiar to women. I question this. These polemicists place what they call ...
Rebecca L. Copeland, 2006
9
Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting
20 In 'Womanliness as a Masquerade' [1929], repr. in V. Burgin, J. Donald and C. Kaplan (eds), Formations of Fantasy, Routledge, 1989: 38, Joan Riviere questioned the notion of an authentic womanliness, arguing instead that womanliness, ...
Elizabeth Prettejohn, 2007
10
Violent Women in Print: Representations in the West German ...
Hysterical. In her important essay of1929, “Womanliness as a Masquerade,” the psychoanalyst Joan Riviere explores how “women who wish for masculinity” — which, in her essay, is manifested through having a career — “may put on a mask  ...
Clare Bielby, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WOMANLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term womanliness is used in the context of the following news items.
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New "supportive" bra gives words of encouragement to wearer!
The Wearable Womanliness-Boosting Bra will also reassure the woman she is either "very beautiful" or "totally radiant" if she asks it how she is looking that day. «Reveal, May 15»
2
Jepang Rilis Bra yang Bisa Bicara
Di Jepang, perusahaan pakaian dalam Triumph menyisipkan speaker mini di koleksi bra terbaru mereka, The Wearable Womanliness-Boosting Bra. Sponsored «Rimanews, May 15»
3
Japanese lingerie maker's concept bra will give you pep talks, help …
Being an article of clothing, the Wearable Womanliness-Boosting Bra's name might seem a little redundant, but the “wearable” is a reference to the rise of ... «RocketNews24, May 15»
4
Stella McCartney — Paris Fashion Week AW15 show report
Some looks worked better than others but it was refreshing to see McCartney exploring a new womanliness, especially in the dresses, which were reconstructed ... «Financial Times, Mar 15»
5
Who Wore It Wes: Kaitlin Chan '17
I guess a lot of people at Wesleyan do too, but…a lot of women in Hong Kong don't care about the traditional womanliness of their outfits, and I like that a lot. «The Wesleyan Argus, Feb 15»
6
Soulstice Theatre stages a ladies' 'Macbeth'
... each other's manliness or womanliness. Changing every male role in Macbeth to a masculinely coded female role is an interesting dramaturgical experiment, ... «Wisconsin Gazette, Jan 15»
7
Anita Ekberg - obituary
She was 5ft 7in tall and possessed a considerable bust, of which she once said: “It's not cellular obesity, it's womanliness.” Yet in the same year that Tashlin had ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
8
Cosmo reader Faith Blumberger bravely poses nude for the …
It's not fair to judge womanliness on dress size – we're not all made from the same mould. "The important thing is to be happy and healthy and to embrace our ... «Cosmopolitan UK, Dec 14»
9
Authentic Sensuality: That's Hot!
... rosy yet succulent to the bite, seemed like a wonderful way to be viewed... similar to the Sofia Vergara/Jennifer Lopez version of womanliness I so appreciate. «Huffington Post, Oct 14»
10
Let's talk about that bass
A thin woman without rounded breasts and hips, a woman with little lipid tissue and visible bones, a woman whose womanliness is called into question because ... «Feministe, Sep 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Womanliness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/womanliness>. Apr 2024 ».
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