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Feminineness

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Noun

1. femaleness, feminineness

the properties characteristic of the female sex

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Feminineness

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adjective
1. 
suitable to or characteristic of a woman
a feminine fashion
2. 
possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate to a woman
3. 
effeminate; womanish
4. grammar
a. 
denoting or belonging to a gender of nouns, occurring in many inflected languages, that includes all kinds of referents as well as some female animate referents
b. 
(as noun)
German Zeit 'time' and Ehe 'marriage' are feminines

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Feminineness

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adjective
1. 
female; of women or girls
2. 
having qualities regarded as characteristic of women and girls, as gentleness, weakness, delicacy, or modesty
3. 
suitable to or characteristic of a woman; womanly
4. 
effeminate; womanish
said of a man
5.  Grammar
designating, of, or belonging to the gender of words denoting, or referring to, females as well as many other words to which no distinction of sex is attributed
6.  Music
designating or of a cadence ending on an unaccented note or chord
7.  Prosody
a. 
ending with an unstressed syllable, as a line of verse
b. 
designating or of a rhyme in which the rhyming elements have two, or sometimes three, syllables of which only the first is stressed (Ex.: danger, stranger)
noun Grammar
8. 
the feminine gender
9. 
a word or form in this gender

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Feminineness

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adj.
1. Of or relating to women or girls.
2. Characterized by or possessing qualities traditionally attributed to women, such as demureness.
3. Effeminate; womanish.
4. Grammar Relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to females or to things grammatically classified as female.
n.
Grammar
1. The feminine gender.
2. A word or form belonging to the feminine gender.

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