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How to use femininity in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun

Femininity means the sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood. Example: “Her boyish figure belied her femininity.”

Examples of femininity by meaning

nounThe sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.

  • A contributing factor to this slightly regressive femininity may have been the sugary fabrics (silver lamé, tulle over sequins) and the meringuelike puffs and baby Googums bows at the neck.2007 February 6, Cathy Horyn, “Young Spirits, One of Them an Old Master”, in The New York Times
  • One outcome of the idea of fluid masculinity and femininity is the notion of genderqueerness.2012, Jo Reger, Everywhere and Nowhere, page 160

More sentences with femininity

  • Her boyish figure belied her femininity.From the entry boyish
  • She's miming a commodified femininity, and comes across as if she's imitating a drag-queen imitating Beyoncé.2013 October 7, Noah Berlatsky, “Of Course Miley Cyrus Is a Sham”, in The Atlantic. From the entry commodified
  • As Stephen Ducat explains, homophobia has its roots in femophobia, or men's fear of their own femininity.2012, Jackson Katz, Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood, →ISBN. From the entry femophobia
  • The project also addressed “laddish masculinity” and “ladettish femininity,’ British terms for gender stereotypical attitudes and behaviors.2012 February, Jody Heymann, Adele Cassola, editors, Lessons in Educational Equality: Successful Approaches to Intractable Problems Around…. From the entry ladettish
  • Get a load of the "eyesome femininity" at the International Casino, as the Times put it.2004 June 13, David W. Dunlap, “The Crossroads of the Crossroads”, in New York Times, page CY3. From the entry get a load of
  • However, woebetide the male who takes that downward step into femininity.1989, Annie Woodhouse, “Conclusion: Transvestism and the Politics of Gender”, in Fantastic Women: Sex, Gender and Transvestism…. From the entry woe betide
  • Everywhere they met with the same unreasonable snakephobia, distinguishing characteristic of femininity.1928 July 8, “Lizards and Snakes for Gowns, Gloves and Automobile Cushions; Eight Thousand Java Lizards Trapped in the Island Jungle, and…. From the entry snakephobia
  • But is “toxic femininity” the right label to apply to the kind of behaviour we’ve seen in the villa?2023 March 12, Eloise Hendy, “Is there really such a thing as ‘toxic femininity’?”, in The Independent. From the entry girlbossy
  • Schafer was assigned male at birth, but always found herself searching for and expressing femininity through art and fashion.2018 May 30, Kate Dwyer, “From Transgender Activist to Runway Model”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Mx.
  • And so the community responded by degrading her femininity.2015, Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed. From the entry Donglegate
  • The French geeks stuck an 'L' in for femininity.'2012, Marina Lewycka, Various Pets Alive and Dead, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 291. From the entry flossie
  • As a trans woman, I don't just experience how our culture devalues femininity—I'm treated as a fake woman.2011, Julia Serano, edited by Jennifer Baumgardner, F 'em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 199. From the entry transmisogyny
  • In one brave and defiant performance, she redefined the patriarchal constructions of beauty, femininity, and womynhood for all who saw her.2008, Laurie J Kendall, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. From the entry womynhood
  • She was no typical Edwardian beauty, all pink marshmallow softness and swooning femininity; neither was she fluffily pretty or pert.2005, Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance, →ISBN, page 150. From the entry fluffily
  • Our conversation helps her to construct a link between refugeeship and femininity: an example of the research process facilitating narrators' transformation.2000, Ronit Lentin, Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah, page 110. From the entry refugeeship
  • Topic of discussion will be femininity and masculinity.1979 April 14, “Calendar”, in Gay Community News, page 16. From the entry rap
  • What a delightful gathering of charming femininity!1947, Anita Bell, He Done Her Wrong. From the entry cheerio
  • Then there’s “bimbocore”, a hyper-feminine aesthetic that takes apart patriarchal definitions of femininity and focuses on dressing for yourself, a “modern act of feminism”.2022 September 25, Annie Brown, “Think”, in South China Morning Post. From the entry bimbocore
  • Because for some transwomen, femininity can feel asymptotic — the closer you get, the more you feel you can never make it.2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium. From the entry asymptotic
  • Portraying the tsaritsy as exemplars of Muscovite femininity and consorts of powerful tsars did not increase the powers granted them by custom.2012, Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry tsaritsa
  • The first challenge to shaping and taming this emerging world is the will itself and the human problem of unwill, especially in relation to femininity.2005, Melodie Calvert, Jennifer Terry, Processed Lives. From the entry unwill
  • As for women, only Venus, stripped of her femininity as arms-bearer for Caesar, and the virginal goddess Vesta are present (4.1.46 and 4.1.21).2005, Ronnie Ancona, Ellen Greene, Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry, →ISBN, page 316. From the entry arms-bearer
  • Some of the definitions of feminism floating around the peace movement these days sound like little more than a call to validate Victorian cultural femininity.1982 April 15, Donna Warnock, “Feminism and Militarism: Can the Peace Movement Reach Out?”, in Win. From the entry biological determinism
  • It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry eunuchoid
  • The boysober movement, for instance, is gaining traction among women who are done contorting themselves into palatable versions of femininity just to be tolerated by mediocre men.2025 March 9, Daniel Dashawn, “Chaos Celibacy: The Great Romantic Boycott”, in Daniel Dashawn Couples Therapy, archived from the original…. From the entry boysober
  • Here I was, embosomed in the very nave, the very omphalos of furtive femininity—a prize patron of the women's restaurant, a member, privy to its innermost secrets.2014, T.C. Boyle, The Collected Stories Of T.Coraghessan Boyle. From the entry omphalos
  • On legitimate days off, during the summer, Klam received poolside instructionals in monied femininity from Marcia and her three sisters — “the Jewish Gang of Four.”2008 May 18, Ginia Bellafante, “Mommy’s Dearest”, in New York Times. From the entry instructional
  • Wollstonecraft's construction of femininity explicitly challenged the dominant gender ideology of her culture, the concept of the female promoted by conservative and radical thinkers alike, from Burke to Rousseau.1993, Anne Kostelanetz Mellor, Romanticism & Gender, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry gender ideology
  • Do not tell me about masculinity and femininity; do not tell me that enchanted frogs turn into princes, that frogesses under a spell turn into princesses.1975, Thomas M. Disch, The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry frogess
  • Thus, by having one's identity be solely based upon superficial notions of beauty and more specifically ultra femininity, the Soft Girl aesthetic promotes exclusivity based on unrealistic standards of appearance.2021 April, Dunya Mostaghimi, “How to: AeSthEt!C”, in C Magazine, volume 9, edition 4, Palo Alto High School, page 17. From the entry soft girl
  • She made love—if the fullblown rortiness of that pretty disgusting act anywhere and anytime was love—just like a guy would want it but with a tinge of femininity thrown in.2015, Bill Reed, Tasker Tusker Tasker (The Inspector Charles Ekanayake), →ISBN. From the entry rortiness

Meaning of femininity

  1. noun The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.

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Questions about femininity in a sentence

How do you use femininity in a sentence?
Femininity is used as a noun. For example: “Her boyish figure belied her femininity.”
What is a short sentence with femininity?
“Her boyish figure belied her femininity.”
What does femininity mean?
Femininity means the sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.

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