as in femininity
the set of qualities traditionally considered appropriate for or characteristic of women she was the ideal of traditional Southern womanhood

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Recent Examples on the Web In 2011, Miu Miu launched the Women’s Tales series to give female filmmakers a platform to present their views on womanhood through different perspectives, stories and genres. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024 People are getting robbed of not only their money and their spirituality, they’re getting robbed of their womanhood and manhood. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2024 The campaign is a tribute to the beauty of womanhood and the modern goddess for which Cult Gaia is named. Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 7 Oct. 2024 That was a style that was specific and iconic for her at that period of her womanhood. Diana Tsui, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for womanhood 

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“Womanhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/womanhood. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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