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womynhood

womynhood noun: feminist spelling of womanhood.

Noun

womynhood (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Feminist spelling of womanhood
    • Reclaiming my true womynhood, learning to truly know and love myself and other wimmin has taken time.1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The Coming Out Stories
    • Indeed, the opera recovers the bound and raped bodies of Afro-Asian womynhood as evidence of the need for a transracial feminist dialectic...2004, Bill Mullen, Afro-Orientalism

Origin of womynhood

From womyn + -hood.

Questions about womynhood

What does womynhood mean?
Womynhood means feminist spelling of womanhood.
What part of speech is womynhood?
Womynhood is a noun.

Words near womynhood in the dictionary

  1. womxn
  2. womyn
  3. womyn's land
  4. womyn's lands
  5. womyn-born-womyn
  6. womynhood
  7. womynkind
  8. womynly
  9. won
  10. won around
  11. won back

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