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femininity

[fem-uh-nin-i-tee] / ˌfɛm əˈnɪn ɪ ti /


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“I was performing femininity, but these days, I don’t feel like I’m channeling someone or something. I just feel like I’m more myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“It’s a modern kind of feminism that embraces self assurance and femininity on your own terms.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"I always sort of go back to classic actresses in the way that they could sort of toe a line between extreme femininity and just rock hard will and grit," she said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

And it equates small portions to elegance, chicness and peak femininity.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Hanging on to femininity was a concrete way to express your womanhood.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

When feminism fades, femininities are taken to extremes.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2014

Masculinities and femininities are being made and remade as polarised species.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2014

Once he had been on the verge of sounding Maurice in regard to Madame, Maurice was so learned in femininities; but this would have been an acknowledgment of his ignorance, and pride closed his mouth.

From The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath

Agni comprehends not only all naturalistic gods, but such later femininities as Reverence, Mercy, and other abstractions, including Boundlessness.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

And as a bee usually winds up with festivity, feasting, dancing, and the like, such femininities as the district possessed were brought over by their respective husbands or male relatives.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay




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