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| Main Entry: |
manhood/womanhood
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical maturity and strength of adult male or female |
| Synonyms: | adulthood, coming of age, fecundity, femininity, fertility, manfulness, manliness, masculinity, mettle, potency, virility, womanliness, womanness |
| Antonyms: | childhood |
| Main Entry: | majority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood |
| Synonyms: | age of consent, drinking age, estate, full age, legal maturity, manhood, maturity, prime, prime of life, ripe age, seniority, voting age, womanhood |
| Notes: | a majority is more than half the votes, while a plurality is simply getting more votes than the other person(s) |
| Antonyms: | adolescence, childhood, minority, underage |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
| Synonyms: | ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, full bloom, fullness, majority, manhood, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, mentality, perfection, postpubescence, prime, prime of life, readiness, ripeness, sophistication, wisdom, womanhood |
| Antonyms: | childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male or female gender |
| Synonyms: | femininity, manhood, manliness, masculinity, sexuality, womanhood, womanliness |
| Notes: | gender is the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; sex is either of the two categories, male or female, into which most organisms are divided |
| Main Entry: | age of consent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legal age |
| Synonyms: | adulthood, manhood, marriageable age, maturity, womanhood |
| Main Entry: | femininity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | girlishness |
| Synonyms: | delicacy, docility, effeminateness, feminality, femineity, feminineness, gentleness, kindness, muliebrity, softness, womanhood, womanliness |
| Antonyms: | maleness, masculinity |
| Main Entry: | distaff side |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | women's side of family |
| Synonyms: | womanhood, womankind, womenfolk, womenfolks |
| Antonyms: | spear side |
| Main Entry: | distaff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | femininity |
| Synonyms: | femaleness, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, womanliness |
| Main Entry: | muliebrity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | femininity |
| Synonyms: | delicacy, distaff, docility, effeminateness, feminality, femineity, feminineness, gentleness, kindness, softness, womanhood, womankind, womanliness, womenfolk |
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