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femininity

[fem-uh-nin-i-tee] / ˌfɛm əˈnɪn ɪ ti /


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Did you have to lose some of your femininity to be a leader?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Glover said she enjoys embracing her femininity and “taking that back” while working over fire.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

As a model and actress from the 1950s, she became an emblem of modern femininity and the sexual revolution before later taking up the cause of animal rights.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

“I was performing femininity, but these days, I don’t feel like I’m channeling someone or something. I just feel like I’m more myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The skiing woman, blond and pale skinned, the iconic model of postmodern femininity, was smiling and wearing sunglasses.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Masculinities and femininities are being made and remade as polarised species.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2014

When feminism fades, femininities are taken to extremes.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2014

Once he had been on the verge of sounding Maurice in regard to Madame, Maurice was so learned in femininities; but this would have been an acknowledgment of his ignorance, and pride closed his mouth.

From The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath

Agni comprehends not only all naturalistic gods, but such later femininities as Reverence, Mercy, and other abstractions, including Boundlessness.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

And as a bee usually winds up with festivity, feasting, dancing, and the like, such femininities as the district possessed were brought over by their respective husbands or male relatives.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay


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