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单词 feminality
释义

feminality

English

Etymology

feminal + -ity

Noun

feminality (countable and uncountable, plural feminalities)

  1. The quality of being feminal; femininity.
    • 1702, George Farquhar, The Inconstant: Or, The Way to Win Him, Act IV in The Works of Mr. George Farquhar, London: John Rivington et al., 10th edition, 1772, p. 48,
      Oriana. But don’t you think there is a great deal of Merit in dedicating a beautiful Face and Person to the Service of Religion?
      Bisarre. Not half so much as devoting ’em to a pretty Fellow: If our Feminality had no Business in this World, why was it sent hither?
    • 1913, Amelia E. Barr, All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography, New York: Appleton, Chapter 13, p. 211,
      No one knows better than I do, that woman, in all essential characteristics, is the same yesterday, today, and forever, yet the readiness with which she lends herself to the variations of race, climate, caste, creed, nationality, and conditions of every kind, is the greatest charm of her feminality.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for feminality in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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