womanhead

Noun

womanhood (countable and uncountable, plural womanhoods)

1. The state or condition of being a woman.
   • She was a vigorous youth poised on the brink of womanhood.
2. All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.
   • There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!1913, Rachel Galvin, quoting Margaret Sanger, “Margaret Sanger's "Deeds of Terrible Virtue"”, in Humanities, volume 19, number 5, National Endowment for the Humanities, published 1988, archived from...

   Synonyms:

   womankind[universal]] or worldwide>

   Antonyms:

   manhood, mankind

3. The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively.
   • She had cast off the terror of the leaping flame, the cold power of judgment that was even now being done, and the wise sadness of the tombs - cast them off and put them behind her, like the white shroud she wore, and now stood out the incarnation of lovely tempting womanhood, made more perfect -...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   womanishness, womanliness

   Antonyms:

   manhood, mannishness, manliness

4. The self-concept of a woman with respect to her possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness; a woman's sense or view of herself as being more or less womanly.

   Antonyms:

   manhood

5. (euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
   • Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.2007, Mark A. Cherpak, Circle of Fear: Uncharted Worlds, page 264

   Antonyms:

   manhood