femininity

English

Etymology

From Middle English femynynytee, femyninytee, variants of femynyte (archaic modern English feminity), equivalent to feminine +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɛmɪˈnɪnɪti/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Hyphenation: fem‧i‧nin‧i‧ty

Noun

femininity (usually uncountable, plural femininities)

The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.
Synonyms: feminineness, womanlikeness

Antonyms: manlikeness, masculinity

Derived terms

toxic femininity

Related terms

Translations

femininity

Adyghe: бзылъфыгъагъ f (bzəlˢfəğağ)
Arabic: اُنوثة ?
Bashkir: нәфислек (nəfislek), мөләйемлек (möləyemlek), гүзәллек (güzəllek), күркәмлек (kürkəmlek)
Belarusian: жано́цкасць f (žanóckascʹ)
Catalan: feminitat f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 婦女特質／妇女特质 (fùnǚ tèzhì)
Czech: ženskost (cs) f, ženství n
Danish: kvindelighed c
Dutch: vrouwelijkheid (nl) ?
Esperanto: ineco
Estonian: naiselikkus n
Finnish: naisellisuus (fi), feminiinisyys (fi)
French: féminité (fr) f
Galician: feminidade (gl) f
Georgian: ქალურობა (kaluroba)
German: Weiblichkeit (de) f, Fraulichkeit (de) f
Greek: θηλυκότητα (el) f (thilykótita)
Hindi: स्त्रीत्व (hi) m (strītva), नारीत्व m (nārītva)
Irish: bandacht f, banúlacht f
Italian: femminilità (it) f
Japanese: 女らしさ (onna-rashisa), 女性性 (じょせいせい, joseisei)
Kazakh: әйелдік (äieldık)
Latvian: sievišķīgums m, sievišķība f
Manx: bwoirrinid f, bwoirrinys f
Middle English: femynyte
Norwegian:
Bokmål: femininitet m

Nynorsk: femininitet m
Old English: wīfhād m
Persian: زنانگی (fa) (zanânegi)
Polish: kobiecość (pl) f, żeńskość f
Portuguese: feminilidade (pt) f, feminidade f
Romanian: feminitate (ro) f
Russian: же́нственность (ru) f (žénstvennostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жѐнствено̄ст f, же̏нско̄ст f

Roman: žènstvenōst (sh) f, žȅnskōst (sh) f
Slovak: ženskosť f
Spanish: feminidad (es) f, femineidad (es) f
Tajik: занонагӣ (tg) (zanonagī)
Tatar: нәфислелек (näfislelek), мөлаемлылык (mölayemlılıq), гүзәллек (tt) (güzällek), йомшаклык (tt) (yomşaqlıq)
Telugu: ఆడతనం (āḍatanaṁ)
Ukrainian: жіно́чість f (žinóčistʹ)

References

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