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Femaleness vs Femalehood - What's the difference?

femaleness | femalehood | Synonyms |

Femaleness is a synonym of femalehood.


As nouns the difference between femaleness and femalehood

is that femaleness is the characteristic of being female while femalehood is the state or period of being female.

femaleness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The characteristic of being female.

    • femalehood

    English

    Noun

  • The state or period of being female.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 5, author=Grace Glueck, title=Self-Portraits That Obscure the Self, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Gender inequality was a serious matter for the feminist performer Hannah Wilke (1940-1993), who in a photograph of her face from her “S.O.S. Scarification Object Series” (1974) sardonically calls attention to her femalehood by wearing her hair in curlers and plastering her face with small, vulva-shaped patches of chewing gum. }}

    Synonyms

    * femaleness * girlhood * womanhood