womanityn.

1836 J. Galt in Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 3 99/2 Judith set out for the ball-room; partly to obtain a sight of so much fine company, or their fine dresses, (which object had drawn together half the humbler womanity of Portmullins).

1892 M. C. Salaman Woman 6 Each fresh experience of love..increases one's knowledge of ‘Womanity’—if I may be allowed the term.

1948 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 6 Aug. 6/2 Mrs. Jack Langley..is a shining example of ‘womanity’.

1970 O. Petrova Black Virgin 62 What a mouthful of words to impress the stupid rabble-babble called womanity.

2004 R. Thomashauer Mama Gena's Marriage Man. (2005) iv. 132 I deserved first-class travel and spas and a designer-only wardrobe. After all, look what I had done for womanity!

1843 E. B. Barrett Let. 7 Aug. in Lett. R. H. Horne (1877) I. xviii. 81 I will be secret beyond womanity, if you are frank beyond discretion.

1868 A. Helps Realmah i. vi. 115 Mrs. Milverton and Lady Ellesmere are very like ordinary women. Womanity is strong in them.

1896 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. 7/3 What will it profit a woman to gain an Oxford degree and lose her womanity?

1966 Guardian 28 Apr. 10/5 Women did not enter..economics to aerate that phantastic agglomeration of male abstractions with a little ‘womanity’.

2006 Z. Wanner Madams p. x It is a sad reality that in South Africa my ‘womanity’ is still defined by how well I cook and clean.