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femalehood

femalehood noun: the state or period of being female.

Noun

femalehood (uncountable)

  1. The state or period of being female.
    • Gender inequality was a serious matter for the feminist performer Hannah Wilke (1940-1993), who in a photograph of her face from her “S.O.S. Scarification Object Series” (1974) sardonically calls attention to her femalehood by wearing her hair in curlers and plastering her face with small...2007 January 5, Grace Glueck, “Self-Portraits That Obscure the Self”, in New York Times

Synonyms of femalehood

Origin of femalehood

From female + -hood.

Questions about femalehood

What does femalehood mean?
Femalehood means the state or period of being female.
What part of speech is femalehood?
Femalehood is a noun.

Words near femalehood in the dictionary

  1. female-to-males
  2. femalecentric
  3. femaledom
  4. femalefolk
  5. femalefolks
  6. femalehood
  7. femaleist
  8. femaleists
  9. femaleless
  10. femalelessness
  11. femalelike

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