Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
femininity. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
femininity, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
femininity in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
femininity you have here. The definition of the word
femininity will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
femininity, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From Middle English femynynytee, femyninytee, variants of femynyte (archaic modern English feminity), equivalent to feminine + -ity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛmɪˈnɪnɪti/
- Hyphenation: fem‧i‧nin‧i‧ty
Noun
femininity (usually uncountable, plural femininities)
- The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.
- Synonyms: feminineness, womanlikeness
- Antonyms: manlikeness, masculinity
2005 April 17, Francine Rose, “'The Peabody Sisters': Reflected Glory”, in The New York Times:It's almost eerie, in the wake of the Lawrence Summers controversy, to encounter the words of an earlier Harvard president, John Kirkland, a "friend and mentor" of Elizabeth's, who advised her that if any woman "is raised by genius and knowledge above the level of her sex, her neglect of attention appropriate to the best half of creation, attentions called femininities, will more than counterbalance all her advantages and reduce her below other women."
2012, Jo Reger, Everywhere and Nowhere, page 160:One outcome of the idea of fluid masculinity and femininity is the notion of genderqueerness.
Derived terms
Translations
femininity
- Adyghe: бзылъфыгъагъ f (bzəlˢfəğağ)
- Arabic: اُنوثة ?
- Bashkir: нәфислек, мөләйемлек, гүзәллек, күркәмлек
- Belarusian: жано́цкасць f (žanóckascʹ)
- Catalan: feminitat f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 婦女特質/妇女特质 (fùnǚ tèzhì)
- Czech: ženskost (cs) f, ženství n
- Danish: kvindelighed c
- Dutch: vrouwelijkheid (nl) ?
- Esperanto: ineco
- Estonian: naiselikkus n
- Finnish: naisellisuus (fi), feminiinisyys (fi)
- French: féminité (fr) f
- Galician: feminidade (gl) f
- Georgian: ქალურობა (kaluroba)
- German: Weiblichkeit (de) f, Fraulichkeit (de) f
- Greek: θηλυκότητα (el) f (thilykótita)
- Hindi: स्त्रीत्व (hi) m (strītva), नारीत्व m (nārītva)
- Irish: bandacht f, banúlacht f
- Italian: femminilità (it) f
- Japanese: 女らしさ (onna-rashisa), 女性性 (じょせいせい, joseisei)
- Kazakh: әйелдік (äieldık)
- Latvian: sievišķīgums m, sievišķība f
- Manx: bwoirrinid f, bwoirrinys f
- Middle English: femynyte
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: femininitet m
- Nynorsk: femininitet m
- Old English: wīfhād m
- Persian: زنانگی (fa) (zanânegi)
- Polish: kobiecość (pl) f, żeńskość f
- Portuguese: feminilidade (pt) f, feminidade f
- Romanian: feminitate (ro) f
- Russian: же́нственность (ru) f (žénstvennostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: жѐнствено̄ст f, же̏нско̄ст f
- Roman: žènstvenōst (sh) f, žȅnskōst (sh) f
- Slovak: ženskosť f
- Spanish: feminidad (es) f, femineidad (es) f
- Tajik: занонагӣ (tg) (zanonagi)
- Tatar: нәфислелек (näfislelek), мөлаемлылык (mölayemlılıq), гүзәллек (tt) (güzällek), йомшаклык (tt) (yomşaqlıq)
- Telugu: ఆడతనం (āḍatanaṁ)
- Ukrainian: жіно́чість f (žinóčistʹ)
|
References