femininismn.
/ˈfɛmᵻnᵻnɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfɛmənəˌnɪzəm/ 1. The quality or state of being feminine; femininity.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > fact or state of being
womanheadc1390
womanhooda1413
womanishness1545
womankind1549
womenhead1555
womanship1608
feminineness1810
femininism1824
feminity1854
femininity1856
femininitude1878
1824 Phrenol. Jrnl. 1 477 He spoke with his own natural voice in the valet;..in a degagê easy style in the dandy officer; and with the softest tripping femeninism [sic] in the dandy's beloved.
1858 Home Mar. 135/1 His mouth is at times firm, though usually beautiful, even to femininism.
1900 Literary Era Dec. 408/2 In it most women's souls are probed... It is a genuine study of femininism.
1945 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 16 Mar. 9/3 (headline) Sweet is the word for new femininism in fashions.
2002 N. N. Chen in S. Brownell & J. N. Wasserstrom Chinese Femininities xii. 217 Recent literature..reflects on masculinity and femininism as specific gender projects that are embedded in institutional and everyday practices of gender relations.
2. A word, expression, idea, or trait considered as particularly feminine or characteristic of women. rare.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by other groups > particular term(s) in
cavalierism1643
law-word1645
technicals1775
balloonicism1838
regimentalism1875
commercialism1881
femininism1892
journalism1893
1892 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 13 Oct. 282/3 The locution [very pleased] has been, all along, in the main a femininism.
1913 H. S. Harrison V. V.'s Eyes xxxiii. 486 Her mother thought..that she had been driven to these madnesses by mere foolish femininisms, new little ideas picked up from Cooneys or elsewhere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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