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Synonyms for femaleness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fee-meyl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfi meɪl |
Définition of femaleness
Origin :- 1889, from female + -ness.
- noun femininity
- For she knew that she had always her price of ransom—her femaleness.
- Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
- Without Maleness, Femaleness has no significance—no existence, in fact.
- Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy
- In the many books about women it is, naturally, their femaleness that has been studied and enlarged upon.
- Extract from : « Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man Made World » by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Sex—that is to say, maleness and femaleness—is present from the moment of birth, and in every act or deed of every child.
- Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
- Biologists now generally prefer to say that a fertilized egg is "predisposed" to maleness or femaleness, instead of "determined."
- Extract from : « Taboo and Genetics » by Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
- If the total dose of maleness exceeds the total dose of femaleness, the sex will be male, and vice versa.
- Extract from : « Taboo and Genetics » by Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
- In her femaleness she felt a secret riches, a reserve, she had always the price of freedom.
- Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
- Which new power, when reawakened to function in a female organism, manifests in a further degree of Femaleness.
- Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy
- She has bartered away for femaleness the possibility of ever receiving a double dose of this factor.
- Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
- Her problem is to get the factor on which the quality depends into an ovum that carries also the factor for femaleness.
- Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
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