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More broadly, the femininity that the UDC embodied provided a cover for public behavior that was unheard of for Southern women.
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Their antics range around but often center on getting married — everyone on the show gets engaged at least once — or discovering something from the past, reconciling past loves, current confusions, ever-present femininity.
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Here's a treat for the unapologetically girly Victoria’s Secret, ruffle-addicted pink-obsessed — Too Faced is here to deliver with a collab that promises to be a tour de force in femininity.
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Approaching femininity in a campy way, skewering gender stereotypes, this glittery, screwball second collection offers entertaining and upsetting poems, often in the voice of a femme fatale.
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By the way, the stiletto heels hung around, too, proof that femininity and bunions have a place in the boardroom.
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With white clothing strictly the order of the day on court at SW19, McCartney has taken inspiration from vintage lingerie creating dresses that emphasize femininity.
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Her genteel manners and femininity coexist easily with her toughness.
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Howe, though, gives her the spirit of an early feminist, even as the rough-and-tumble Oakley discovers her own sense of femininity, growing from a wild, illiterate girl into a wise woman who discovers both love and her own place in the world.
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First Known Use of femininity
14th century
femininity Synonyms
Synonyms
femaleness, feminity, muliebrity, womanhood, womanishness, womanlinessAntonyms
manhood, manliness, masculinity, virilityRelated Words
girlishness; effeminacy, effeteness; girlhood, maidenhoodNear Antonyms
androgyny; boyishness, mannishness, tomboyishnessMedical Dictionary
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