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womanliness

/ˈwʊmənlɪnəs/

womanliness noun: the condition of being a woman; femininity.

Noun

womanliness (countable and uncountable, plural womanlinesses)

  1. The condition of being a woman; femininity.
    • As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 21

womanliness meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

womanliness in Tamil

பெண்மை, பெண்ட்கைமை, பெண்மயம், பெண்ணலம்

womanliness in Malayalam

womanliness
പെണ്മ peṇma

Antonyms of womanliness

Forms of womanliness

pluralwomanlinesses

Origin of womanliness

From womanly + -ness.

Questions about womanliness

What does womanliness mean?
Womanliness means the condition of being a woman; femininity.
What is womanliness in Tamil?
Womanliness in Tamil is பெண்மை, பெண்ட்கைமை, பெண்மயம். See Womanliness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is womanliness?
Womanliness is a noun.
How do you pronounce womanliness?
Womanliness is pronounced /ˈwʊmənlɪnəs/.
What is the plural of womanliness?
The plural of womanliness is womanlinesses.

Words near womanliness in the dictionary

  1. womanlier
  2. womanliest
  3. womanlike
  4. womanlikeness
  5. womanlily
  6. womanliness
  7. womanlinesses
  8. womanlover
  9. womanlovers
  10. womanly
  11. womanmode

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Adapted from Wiktionary: womanliness (page history and authors); womanliness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പെണ്മ (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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