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womanishness
noun as in effeminacy
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noun as in effeminateness
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noun as in sissiness
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Example Sentences
We need a new word for laddishness, for this is womanishness nowadays.
And losing it, she abandons the male to the toils of the enemy camp; to those whose womanishness partakes, at all events, of the attributes of a sex complementary and supplementary to his own.
As she ran back to her post Davidge smiled at the womanishness of her gait, and thought of Joan of Arc, never so lovably feminine as in her armor.
Even in the agony of my awakening consciousness I felt the inevitable sting of shame at my weakness and womanishness.
For that was what it came to; and though Verrian tasted a delicious pleasure in the womanish feat by which she overcame her womanishness, he could not puzzle out her motive.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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