femininityn.

Brit.

/ˌfɛmᵻˈnɪnᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌfɛməˈnɪnᵻdi/

Forms: Middle English femyninnyte, Middle English femyninytee, Middle English femynynytee, Middle English ffemynynyte, 1500s femininitie, 1700s– femininity.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: feminine v., -ity suffix.

Etymology: < feminine v. + -ity suffix. Compare post-classical Latin femininitas (c1300 in a British source). Compare also feminity n.

a. Behaviour or qualities regarded as characteristic of a woman; feminine quality or characteristics; womanliness. Also: an instance of this. Cf. feminity n. 1a.rare before late 18th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > womanly qualities or characteristics

tendernessa1387

femininityc1405

feminityc1415

womanhoodc1430

womanc1440

womanliness1538

muliebrity?1592

woman1619

feminality1646

femality1702

femineity1741

feminacy1776

feminility1824

womanism1824

feminism1841

womanness1841

feminicity1843

womanity1843

femininitude1878

the eternal feminine1892

marianismo1972

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) 262 O Serpent vnder femynynytee... O feyned womman.

c1430 Compleynt in J. Schick Lydgate's Temple of Glas (1891) App. 63 In whame yche vertue is at rest..Prudence and femynynytee.

1789 Hartly House, Calcutta I. x. 119 The manners of the ladies at Calcutta are somewhat contradictory—now all softness and femininity, and now all courage and resolution.

1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 230 She was all that my most romantic dreams had fancied of femininity..and grace.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 4/2 What she [sc. the American woman] conspicuously lacks, on the other hand, is essential femininity.

1906 Daily Chron. 23 June 3/2 The refinements and femininities and self-revelations, which are so charming in a romance or in a drawing room.

1959 A. Nin Ladders to Fire 22 Outwardly Djuna was the essence of femininity..a curled frilled flower which might have been a starched undulating petticoat.

2006 N. S. Dhaliwal Tourism vii. 134 I like her; she had an easy, unaffected femininity.

b. depreciative. Feminine quality or characteristics as considered undesirable (esp. in a man); effeminacy. Cf. feminity n. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun]

effeminateness1558

effeminacy1571

gingerliness1583

mollitude1599

mollities1604

invirility1628

femality?1643

womanlishness1648

feminity1669

ladyness1671

Miss Mollyism1834

femininity1855

Miss Nancyism1860

sissiness1892

camp1909

sissification1910

camping1922

lavender1929

1855 Manch. Weekly Examiner & Times 22 July 3/1 The femininity of Fénelon's nature.

1863 E. L. Swifte in Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 4 264 A certain femininity, which our patresfamilias call changeableness.

1879 T. P. O'Connor Ld. Beaconsfield 136 Features delicate almost to femininity.

1901 Mod. Culture Jan. 496/2 Contrasting his constitutional delicacy, his femininity, his indecision, and his hysteria with..his mighty father.

1946 Amer. Hist. Rev. 51 763 The author has spun a cocoon of cloying femininity about the noble figure of Jefferon.

1991 E. K. Sedgwick in E. Sedgwick Tendencies (1993) 158 The likelihood is disproportionately high that he will have a childhood history of self-perceived effeminacy, femininity, or nonmasculinity.

2. Women considered collectively; womankind; (occasionally as a count noun) a woman. Cf. feminity n. 2. rare before 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > women collectively

wifkinOE

womanOE

womankinc1175

womankindc1175

womenkina1387

womenkinda1387

womanhoodc1405

feminityc1425

femininityc1450

femininec1451

the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536

the second sex1536

the woman sex1536

feminie1541

mesdames1552

the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex1578

sex1589

ladyhooda1666

fair1687

wimmin1710

womenfolk1729

mesdemoiselles1739

the female of the species1795

femalitiesc1801

ladykind1829

womanity1836

womandom1838

ladydom1843

petticoatery1849

tea-body1865

muslin1884

the skirt1899

quim1909

womyn1975

womxn1991

c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 1090 Chastite Is a vertu..And greet Recours of ffemynynyte pallith of prynces the vertuous Corage.

1832 N.-Y. Mirror 23 June 406/2 Young mothers—matrons, so little faded from the free maiden bloom, that the stranger hesitates in what class of femininity to rank them.

1865 Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 7 Crinoline..has..enlightened us respecting the not faultless ankles of femininity.

1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Brit. I. 214 Such femininities as the district possessed were brought over by their respective husbands or male relatives.

1907 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 329 Nothing is more instructive than Balzac's description of what his age regarded as the perfected type of femininity.

1970 MLN 85 848 Dom Juan wanted to conquer the beauties of all femininity.

1992 A. Hannay tr. S. Kierkegaard Either/Or II. i. ii. 105 In each woman he desires the whole of femininity.

3. The fact of being female. rare before 19th cent.In quot. 1891 with reference to a woman's physique.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > fact or state of being

womanheadc1390

womanhooda1413

womanishness1545

womankind1549

womenhead1555

womanship1608

feminineness1810

femininism1824

feminity1854

femininity1856

femininitude1878

1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xii. f. 11 The woman is unperfiter than the man: and the femininitie hapneth to man by accidence..of the depriuing.

1856 N.-Y. Daily Times 26 Apr. 2/4 There is no doubt of her femininity, though her counterfeit of a man is said to have been perfect.

1861 Amer. Bee Jrnl. Nov. 248/2 This apparatus [sc. the sting]..is found only in female insects; and its presence in the queen bee, may therefore be considered as an additional evidence of her femininity.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June 2/1 A part for which the exuberant femininity of her physique obviously disqualifies her.

1921 Times 2 Nov. 13/6 It comes..as a welcome proof of her femininity to find her describing a large, black, hairy caterpillar..as ‘an awful beast’.

1976 K. Y. Salaam Ibura 31 Many of our brothers... question your femininity.

2003 J. J. Trenka Lang. of Blood 70 I..washed off my make-up, and donned used men's clothes and a baseball cap in an effort to conceal my femininity.

4. Of a thing: the quality or condition of displaying characteristics associated with a woman; feminine style, design, etc.concrete in quot. a1876.

ΚΠ

1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxvii. 172 It is written with a crow-quill, and has other marks of femininity.

a1876 G. Dawson Biogr. Lect. (1886) 194 A perfect femininity of architecture, the Venus of Gothic creation.

1898 ‘C. E. Raimond’ Open Question xxix. 341 He smiled at the obvious femininity of the old trinket.

1918 Literary Digest 5 Oct. 46/1 (advt.) Choose a paper whose texture and color..its character:—its delicacy or ruggedness, its femininity or dignity.

1969 D. N. Ferguson Why of Music 39 What we found, when we looked for it in this Prelude, is a trace of femininity.

1990 House & Garden Nov. 141/2 Femininity is also present in the bathroom in the blue-and-white toile de Jouy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	femininity
释义	femininityn. Brit. /ˌfɛmᵻˈnɪnᵻti/, U.S. /ˌfɛməˈnɪnᵻdi/ Forms: Middle English femyninnyte, Middle English femyninytee, Middle English femynynytee, Middle English ffemynynyte, 1500s femininitie, 1700s– femininity. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: feminine v., -ity suffix. Etymology: < feminine v. + -ity suffix. Compare post-classical Latin femininitas (c1300 in a British source). Compare also feminity n. 1. a. Behaviour or qualities regarded as characteristic of a woman; feminine quality or characteristics; womanliness. Also: an instance of this. Cf. feminity n. 1a.rare before late 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > womanly qualities or characteristics tendernessa1387 femininityc1405 feminityc1415 womanhoodc1430 womanc1440 womanliness1538 muliebrity?1592 woman1619 feminality1646 femality1702 femineity1741 feminacy1776 feminility1824 womanism1824 feminism1841 womanness1841 feminicity1843 womanity1843 femininitude1878 the eternal feminine1892 marianismo1972 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) 262 O Serpent vnder femynynytee... O feyned womman. c1430 Compleynt in J. Schick Lydgate's Temple of Glas (1891) App. 63 In whame yche vertue is at rest..Prudence and femynynytee. 1789 Hartly House, Calcutta I. x. 119 The manners of the ladies at Calcutta are somewhat contradictory—now all softness and femininity, and now all courage and resolution. 1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 230 She was all that my most romantic dreams had fancied of femininity..and grace. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 4/2 What she [sc. the American woman] conspicuously lacks, on the other hand, is essential femininity. 1906 Daily Chron. 23 June 3/2 The refinements and femininities and self-revelations, which are so charming in a romance or in a drawing room. 1959 A. Nin Ladders to Fire 22 Outwardly Djuna was the essence of femininity..a curled frilled flower which might have been a starched undulating petticoat. 2006 N. S. Dhaliwal Tourism vii. 134 I like her; she had an easy, unaffected femininity. b. depreciative. Feminine quality or characteristics as considered undesirable (esp. in a man); effeminacy. Cf. feminity n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun] effeminateness1558 effeminacy1571 gingerliness1583 mollitude1599 mollities1604 invirility1628 femality?1643 womanlishness1648 feminity1669 ladyness1671 Miss Mollyism1834 femininity1855 Miss Nancyism1860 sissiness1892 camp1909 sissification1910 camping1922 lavender1929 1855 Manch. Weekly Examiner & Times 22 July 3/1 The femininity of Fénelon's nature. 1863 E. L. Swifte in Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 4 264 A certain femininity, which our patresfamilias call changeableness. 1879 T. P. O'Connor Ld. Beaconsfield 136 Features delicate almost to femininity. 1901 Mod. Culture Jan. 496/2 Contrasting his constitutional delicacy, his femininity, his indecision, and his hysteria with..his mighty father. 1946 Amer. Hist. Rev. 51 763 The author has spun a cocoon of cloying femininity about the noble figure of Jefferon. 1991 E. K. Sedgwick in E. Sedgwick Tendencies (1993) 158 The likelihood is disproportionately high that he will have a childhood history of self-perceived effeminacy, femininity, or nonmasculinity. 2. Women considered collectively; womankind; (occasionally as a count noun) a woman. Cf. feminity n. 2. rare before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > women collectively wifkinOE womanOE womankinc1175 womankindc1175 womenkina1387 womenkinda1387 womanhoodc1405 feminityc1425 femininityc1450 femininec1451 the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536 the second sex1536 the woman sex1536 feminie1541 mesdames1552 the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex1578 sex1589 ladyhooda1666 fair1687 wimmin1710 womenfolk1729 mesdemoiselles1739 the female of the species1795 femalitiesc1801 ladykind1829 womanity1836 womandom1838 ladydom1843 petticoatery1849 tea-body1865 muslin1884 the skirt1899 quim1909 womyn1975 womxn1991 c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 1090 Chastite Is a vertu..And greet Recours of ffemynynyte pallith of prynces the vertuous Corage. 1832 N.-Y. Mirror 23 June 406/2 Young mothers—matrons, so little faded from the free maiden bloom, that the stranger hesitates in what class of femininity to rank them. 1865 Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 7 Crinoline..has..enlightened us respecting the not faultless ankles of femininity. 1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Brit. I. 214 Such femininities as the district possessed were brought over by their respective husbands or male relatives. 1907 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 329 Nothing is more instructive than Balzac's description of what his age regarded as the perfected type of femininity. 1970 MLN 85 848 Dom Juan wanted to conquer the beauties of all femininity. 1992 A. Hannay tr. S. Kierkegaard Either/Or II. i. ii. 105 In each woman he desires the whole of femininity. 3. The fact of being female. rare before 19th cent.In quot. 1891 with reference to a woman's physique. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > fact or state of being womanheadc1390 womanhooda1413 womanishness1545 womankind1549 womenhead1555 womanship1608 feminineness1810 femininism1824 feminity1854 femininity1856 femininitude1878 1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xii. f. 11 The woman is unperfiter than the man: and the femininitie hapneth to man by accidence..of the depriuing. 1856 N.-Y. Daily Times 26 Apr. 2/4 There is no doubt of her femininity, though her counterfeit of a man is said to have been perfect. 1861 Amer. Bee Jrnl. Nov. 248/2 This apparatus [sc. the sting]..is found only in female insects; and its presence in the queen bee, may therefore be considered as an additional evidence of her femininity. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June 2/1 A part for which the exuberant femininity of her physique obviously disqualifies her. 1921 Times 2 Nov. 13/6 It comes..as a welcome proof of her femininity to find her describing a large, black, hairy caterpillar..as ‘an awful beast’. 1976 K. Y. Salaam Ibura 31 Many of our brothers... question your femininity. 2003 J. J. Trenka Lang. of Blood 70 I..washed off my make-up, and donned used men's clothes and a baseball cap in an effort to conceal my femininity. 4. Of a thing: the quality or condition of displaying characteristics associated with a woman; feminine style, design, etc.concrete in quot. a1876. ΚΠ 1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxvii. 172 It is written with a crow-quill, and has other marks of femininity. a1876 G. Dawson Biogr. Lect. (1886) 194 A perfect femininity of architecture, the Venus of Gothic creation. 1898 ‘C. E. Raimond’ Open Question xxix. 341 He smiled at the obvious femininity of the old trinket. 1918 Literary Digest 5 Oct. 46/1 (advt.) Choose a paper whose texture and color..its character:—its delicacy or ruggedness, its femininity or dignity. 1969 D. N. Ferguson Why of Music 39 What we found, when we looked for it in this Prelude, is a trace of femininity. 1990 House & Garden Nov. 141/2 Femininity is also present in the bathroom in the blue-and-white toile de Jouy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1405
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