different between womanhood vs muliebrity

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

English

Etymology

From Late Latin muliebrit?s (“womanhood; womanliness”), from Latin muli?bris (“feminine, womanly”) + -t?s (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); or from muli?bris +? -ity; compare Middle French muliebrité. Muli?bris is derived from mulier (“woman; wife”) (from mollior (“softer; milder; weaker”), comparative form of mollis (“soft; mild, tender; weak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft; tender; weak”)) + -br?s (noun suffix denoting a person).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mju?l???b??ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mjuli??b??ti/, /-?i/
• Hyphenation: mu?li?e?bri?ty

Noun

muliebrity (countable and uncountable, plural muliebrities)

1. (literary) The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood.

   Synonyms: femaleness, femineity, womanishness, womanliness, womanness

   Antonyms: masculinity, manhood, manliness, mannishness, virility
2. (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood.
3. (physiology) The state of puberty in a female.

Alternative forms

• muliebritie (obsolete)

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References

Further reading

• femininity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia