Etymology
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From Middle English femynynytee, femyninytee, variants of femynyte (archaic modern English feminity), equivalent to feminine + -ity.
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /fɛmɪˈnɪnɪti/
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- Hyphenation: fem‧i‧nin‧i‧ty
femininity (usually uncountable, plural femininities)
- The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.
- Synonyms: feminineness, womanlikeness
- Antonyms: manlikeness, masculinity
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Translations
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femininity
- Adyghe: бзылъфыгъагъ f (bzəlˢfəğağ)
- Arabic: اُنوثة ?
- Bashkir: нәфислек (nəfislek), мөләйемлек (möləyemlek), гүзәллек (güzəllek), күркәмлек (kürkəmlek)
- 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) (zanonagī)
- Tatar: нәфислелек (näfislelek), мөлаемлылык (mölayemlılıq), гүзәллек (tt) (güzällek), йомшаклык (tt) (yomşaqlıq)
- Telugu: ఆడతనం (āḍatanaṁ)
- Ukrainian: жіно́чість f (žinóčistʹ)
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