Adjective : feminine beauty; feminine dress. ,a man with a feminine walk. ,feminine staff members. From Dictionary.com.
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 rose and fell, and at the color that was now excited in her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XIII] Reference
He always perturbedly harked back to her feminineness. From Wordnik.com. [Adventure] Reference
You could not say she was masculine, but there was a something stripped away from her which most people class as feminineness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wishing-Ring Man] Reference
It was such a feminineness, however, as is rarest to find in woman, though not the appreciation of it; perhaps it is not to be found at all in woman, but is only the feminine in man. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
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 rose and fell, and at the color that was now excited in her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XIII] Reference
It is a weakness, however, of a peculiar kind, not arising from want of personal courage, or any specific defect of faculty, but rather an intellectual feminineness, which feels a necessity of ever leaning on the breast of others, and of reclining on those who are all the while known to be inferiors. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference
It is a weakness, however, of a peculiar kind, not arising from want of personal courage, or any specific defect of faculty, but rather an intellectual feminineness, which feels a necessity of ever leaning on the breasts of others, and of reclining on those who are all the while known to be inferiors. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference
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