femininity

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, fashion—that is, clothing that changes for the sake of change—became associated with frivolity and femininity.

From The Wall Street Journal

“For someone like me, who is Puerto Rican, Black and whose sense of femininity and masculinity is disassociated with modern perspectives, Latinx just feels right,” said Ruiz, a student at Boston University.

From Washington Post

The only way to push back at the time was to reject femininity, or objects I associated with femininity, altogether, including the most feminine character I knew: Princess Peach.

From Los Angeles Times

The dancers that I know are not holding on to a little girl’s definition of femininity; they're independent, strong and, as far as I can tell, they don’t suffer in silence.

From New York Times

In 1994, Amos talked about the "healing properties" of the color pink, which we might at first associate with softness, with childishness, femininity and with love.

From Salon