Womanhood vs Femalehood - What's the difference?
womanhood | femalehood | Synonyms |
The state of being a woman.
All the qualities typical of women.
Women considered as a group.
(euphemism) The vulva.
* 2007 , Mark A. Cherpak, Circle of Fear: Uncharted Worlds (page 264)
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
, 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. }}
Womanhood is a synonym of femalehood.
As nouns the difference between womanhood and femalehood
is that womanhood is the state of being a woman while femalehood is the state or period of being female.womanhood
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- Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood .
femalehood
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