femaleness

Example Sentences

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There’s a plea in there — not for genderlessness, exactly, but for a freedom of narrative movement that femaleness, as conventionally written, impairs.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

This is a film about class and gender and femaleness and youth and unwanted attention that makes the smallest moments come alive with humanity.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2020

“Gender identity is your own sense or conviction of maleness or femaleness; and gender role is the cultural stereotype of what is masculine and feminine.”

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2018

It’s very performative of, I wouldn’t say femininity, but just, like, femaleness in a way which feels very badass to me.

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2018

It was here, at a Lagos salon, that the different ranks of imperial femaleness were best understood.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie