womanhood

English

Alternative forms

• womanhead (obsolete)
• womonhood, womynhood, wommonhood (feminist spellings; rare; see usage notes at woman)

Etymology

From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of Middle English womanhede, equivalent to woman +‎ -hood.

Noun

womanhood (countable and uncountable, plural womanhoods)

1. The state of being a woman.
2. All the qualities typical of women.
3. Women considered as a group.
4. (euphemistic) The vulva.
   • 2007, Mark A. Cherpak, Circle of Fear: Uncharted Worlds (page 264)

     Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.

Related terms

• manhood

Translations

state of being a woman

• Finnish: naiseus (fi)
• French: féminité (fr)
• German: Weiblichkeit (de) f, Fraulichkeit f, Frausein n
• Latin: muliebris status
• Maori: wahinetanga
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• Russian: же́нственность (ru) f (žénstvennostʹ)
• Swedish: kvinnlighet (sv) c
• Telugu: స్త్రీత్వము (strītvamu)
• Turkish: kadınlık (tr)

qualities considered typical for a woman

• Finnish: naisellisuus (fi)
• French: féminité (fr)
• German: Fraulichkeit f
• Latin: muliēbritās f
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• Latvian: sievišķība f
• Russian: же́нственность (ru) f (žénstvennostʹ)
• Swedish: kvinnlighet (sv) c

women as a group

• Finnish: naiset (fi), naisväki (fi)
• German: alle Frauen f pl, Frauen (de) f pl
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• Maori: hunga wāhine
• Russian: же́нский пол m (žénskij pol), же́нщины (ru) f pl (žénščiny)