单词 | muliebrity |
释义 | muliebrity (once / 422119 pages) n A persons's muliebrity is her femininity or womanliness. An idolizing kindergartner might admire her dress-wearing, curly-haired teacher's muliebrity. The noun muliebrity is quite uncommon, and today it's almost always used in a literary context. A poet might describe a beautiful woman's muliebrity, for example. The word comes from the Late Latin word muliebritas, "state of womanhood," which is rooted in one of the Latin words for "woman," mulier. WORD FAMILYmuliebrity USAGE EXAMPLESThere was a little toss in their movement, full of muliebrity. Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No...(2010) The health of American wives, their muliebrity or womanly power, is sapped in various ways. Brann, William Cowper, Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01(2010) Miss Darley smiled rather faintly; the imagery was not just to her taste: femineity often finds it very hard to accept the fact of muliebrity. Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No...(2010) 1n the state of being an adult woman Syn|Hyper womanhood adulthood the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity 2n the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper femininity masculinity the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men womanlike, womanliness the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female ladylikenessbehavior befitting a lady maidenlinessbehavior befitting a young maiden girlishnessbeing characteristic of a girl effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishnessthe trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) emasculationloss of power and masculinity trait a distinguishing feature of your personal nature |
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