different between typical vs womanhood

English

Alternative forms

• typicall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic, type + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?p?kl?/
• Hyphenation: typ?i?cal

Adjective

typical (comparative more typical, superlative most typical)

1. Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
2. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
3. Normal, average; to be expected.
4. (taxonomy) Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:common

Antonyms

• atypical

Derived terms

• typicality
• typically
• typicalness

Related terms

• typal
• type
• typic

Translations

See also

• gestalt
• gist
• resemblance
• emblematic
• prefigurative
• distinctive

Noun

typical (plural typicals)

1. Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

   Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.

   Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.

Further reading

• typical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• typical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• clay pit, claypit

English

Alternative forms

• womanhead (obsolete)
• womonhood, womynhood, wommonhood (feminist spellings; rare; see usage notes at woman)

Etymology

From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede; synchronically analyzable as woman +? -hood.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?m?nh?d/
• Hyphenation: wom?an?hood

Noun

womanhood (countable and uncountable, plural womanhoods)

1. The state or condition of being a woman.
2. All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.

   Synonym: womankind (universally: only synonymous when the meaning of womanhood is 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.

   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.

   Antonym: manhood

5. (euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.

   Hypernym: (slang) junk

   Antonym: manhood

Coordinate terms

• manhood

Related terms

• girlhood
• boyhood
• childhood

Translations