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Definition of Femaleness
1. Noun. The properties characteristic of the female sex.
Generic synonyms: Gender, Sex, Sexuality
Derivative terms: Female, Female, Female, Feminine, Feminine
Antonyms: Maleness
Definition of Femaleness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being female. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Femaleness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Femaleness
Literary usage of Femaleness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1911)
"But the ovum, the cell derived from the mother, may carry either femaleness or
maleness. When an ovum bearing maleness meets the invariably maleness-bearing ..."
2. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"The author points out that grape flowers for convenience may be grouped according
to the degree of maleness or femaleness which they exhibit. ..."
3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1920)
"Further, the degree of femaleness and maleness of one or both of tba first legs
may be quite unlike the degree of maleness and femaleness of the other ..."
4. Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery by Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1911)
"The theory is this: femaleness and maleness constitute the two characters ...
femaleness is dominant; that is to say, femaleness is due to the presence of ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1919)
"... representing these three classes are brought out strikingly by the facts that
in class a two X-elements are necessary to the appearance of femaleness, ..."
6. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"From the experimental evidence as to the inheritance of sex Castle, '09, has
concluded that femaleness depends upon the presence of some factor wanting in ..."
7. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1919)
"Environmental conditions are effectual in influencing the stock, so that at times
the strains selected toward normal femaleness have been markedly ..."
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