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Feminine vs Nonvirile - What's the difference?

feminine | nonvirile |

As adjectives the difference between feminine and nonvirile

is that feminine is while nonvirile is not virile.

feminine

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.
    • Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
  • Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
  • * :
    • 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.
  • (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

    • Synonyms

    * (of the female sex): female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): caring, ladylike, nurturing

    Antonyms

    * (of the female sex): male, manly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): butch, masculine * (grammar): masculine, neuter

    Derived terms

    * femininely * feminineness * feminine rhyme (prosody) * femininity * feminize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is feminine.
  • A woman.
  • * :
    • They guide the feminines toward the palace.
  • (grammar) The feminine gender.
  • (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
  • * Latham:
    • There are but few true feminines in English.

    nonvirile

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-virile

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not virile.
  • * 1984 : , The Spell of New Mexico , [http://books.google.com/books?id=YxmAmXA-SPQC]
    • Then there is a consistency, if this feminine theory is true, in the old-womanlike faces of the middle-aged Pueblo Indians; they are stout and appear nonvirile and non-sexual.
  • * 1992 : Edward Jayne, Negative poetics? , [http://books.google.com/books?id=tsGEAAAAIAAJ]
    • Finally, as if by afterthought, Barthes added a final antinomy between virile and nonvirile to complete the regressive sequence for rejecting heterosexual
  • * 2004 : Jude Deveraux, Remembrance? , [http://books.google.com/books?id=x0iRpH3M-VEC]
    • As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine inanimate, feminine and neuter nouns.
  • * 1975 : Maria Zagórska Brooks, Polish Reference Grammar , page 317] ([http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detail.cfm?isbn=9789027933133 Walter de Gruyter; ISBN 9789027933133)
    • The nonvirile' form is used for nouns of masculine gender not referring to human beings and for neuter and feminine gender nouns. Numerals from five through ten distinguish between two forms: the form for virile gender nouns and the form for ' nonvirile gender nouns which the numerals quantify.

    Antonyms

    * virile