feminity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English femynyte, from Middle French feminite; compare femininity.
Noun
[edit]feminity (countable and uncountable, plural feminities)
- (archaic) Synonym of femininity
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- vnto Psyche with great trust and care / Committed her, yfostered to bee, / And trained vp in true feminitee […]