Synonyms for femaleness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fee-meyl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfi meɪl

Définition of femaleness

Origin : 1889, from female + -ness.

noun femininity

Example sentences :

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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