| 释义 |
ˈfemaleness
1. The character or qualities of a female.
1892W. W. Peyton Memor. Jesus iv. 94 In maleness and femaleness there is a likeness to the divine nature. 1955E. Hyams Slaughterhouse Informer 6 She gave out..a kind of essence of lusty femaleness.
2. Biol. The quality of being female.
1889Geddes & Thomson Evol. Sex iii. 92 After maleness and femaleness have been partly established. 1894H. Drummond Ascent of Man vii. 315 That this division into maleness and femaleness should run between almost every two of every plant and every animal in existence, must have implications of a quite exceptional kind. Ibid. 323 What exactly maleness is, and what femaleness, has been one of the problems of the world. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 210/1 That maleness and femaleness may be regarded as expressing metabolic alternatives open to the germ-cell in its development. 1930G. R. de Beer Embryol. & Evol. iii. 22 The various organs and parts of the body do not all switch over from maleness to femaleness together. 1949M. Mead Male & Female i. 3 How are men and women to think about their maleness and their femaleness in this twentieth century. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex iii. 32 A friendship..between two women in whom femaleness predominates. |