FEMALENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The properties characteristic of the female sex

Synonyms:

femaleness; feminineness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("femaleness" is a kind of...):

gender; sex; sexuality (the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles)

Antonym:

maleness (the properties characteristic of the male sex)

Derivation:

female (being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop)

female (for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls)

female (characteristic of or peculiar to a woman)