femaleness

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From female +‎ -ness.

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femaleness (countable and uncountable, plural femalenesses)

  1. The characteristic, state or condition of being female. [from 19th c.]
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      In hunting or agrarian societies dependent upon nature, femaleness was honored as an immanent principle of fertility.

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