feminacyn.
/ˈfɛmᵻnəsi/, U.S. /ˈfɛmənəsi/ = femininity n. 1.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > womanly qualities or characteristics
tendernessa1387
femininityc1405
feminityc1415
womanhoodc1430
womanc1440
womanliness1538
muliebrity?1592
woman1619
feminality1646
femality1702
femineity1741
feminacy1776
feminility1824
womanism1824
feminism1841
womanness1841
feminicity1843
womanity1843
femininitude1878
the eternal feminine1892
marianismo1972
1776 Morning Chron. 18 Jan. It is no easy matter to bear out against prayers, tears, and all the soft insinuating rhetoric of feminacy.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. x. 150 Isabel was meek, and her pride was concealed by the outward softness and feminacy of her temper.
1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia I. i. ii. 106 The face took from the figure the charm of feminacy.
1917 L. Pasvolsky tr. A. Kuprin Bracelet of Garnets 6 Some incomprehensible and elusive charm, which lay perhaps..in the deep feminacy of all her features.
1976 M. French Bk. as World 275 All told, allusions to feminacy in men are rife throughout Ulysses.
2010 K. Ricker Daculi Witch Chron. i. 10 She was a formidable force of feminacy indeed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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