Feminine vs Craftswomanship - What's the difference?
feminine | craftswomanship |
Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
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(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
That which is feminine.
A woman.
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(grammar) The feminine gender.
(grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
* Latham:
The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
* 1934 : Joseph Kirk Folsom, The Family: Its Sociology and Social Psychiatry ,
* 1991 Duke L.J. 365 (Duke Law Journal); quoted in:
* 2000 : Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge ,
* 2006 : Alison Findlay, Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama ,
As nouns the difference between feminine and craftswomanship
is that feminine is that which is feminine while craftswomanship is the body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).As an adjective feminine
is of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.feminine
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
- Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine .
- Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
- Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine , and subject to ease and delicacy.
Synonyms
* (of the female sex): female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): caring, ladylike, nurturingAntonyms
* (of the female sex): male, manly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): butch, masculine * (grammar): masculine, neuterDerived terms
* femininely * feminineness * feminine rhyme (prosody) * femininity * feminizeNoun
(en noun)- They guide the feminines toward the palace.
- There are but few true feminines in English.
craftswomanship
English
Noun
(-)p296(J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- …were to cease purchasing machinery, labor-saving devices, hired service, ready-made food and clothes, and go back to the old-fashioned craftswomanship .
page 275] ([http://www.temple.edu/tempress/ Temple University Press)
- When will I cherish my hair again, the way my grandmother cherished it, when fascinated by its beauty, with hands carrying centuries-old secrets of adornment and craftswomanship , she plaited it, twisted it, cornrowed it, finger-curled it, olive-oiled it, on the growing moon cut and shaped it, and wove it like fine strands of gold inlaid with semiprecious stones, coral and ivory, telling with my hair a lost-found story of the people she carried inside her?
p200] ([http://www.cambridge.org/ Cambridge University Press)
- Its swift intercutting suggests theatrical craftswomanship based on a working knowledge of the effects that could be achieved with shutters and scenery offered by the Theatre Royal.