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n. - The properties characteristic of the female gender.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Adjective : feminine beauty; feminine dress. ,a man with a feminine walk. ,feminine staff members
  • Her cool, matter-of-fact speech belied her — or so Daylight thought, looking at her perturbed feminineness, at the rounded lines of her figure, the breast that deeply...
  • He always perturbedly harked back to her feminineness.
  • You could not say she was masculine, but there was a something stripped away from her which most people class as feminineness.
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