Muliebrity

Quick meaning: Muliebrity is a noun meaning (literary) The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood.
2. (physiology) The state of puberty in a female.

Example Sentences

She had not married, I suppose because her standards were high, and men are cowards and with an instinctive appetite for muliebrity.

The second of the ravishing voices I have heard was, as I have said, that of another German woman. […] it had so much woman in it,—muliebrity, as well as femineity; […]

[T]his tall, handsome, gentlemanly-looking woman, who, however, in spite of her broad shoulders and narrow hips possessed a refined muliebrity superior to mere womanliness of outline, […]

The Ladies of Rhodes hearing that you have loſt, / A capitoll part of your Lady ware, / Haue made their petition to Cupid, / To plague you aboue all other, / As one preiuditiall to their muliebritie.

Word Forms

• muliebrities
• muliebritie

Synonyms for muliebrity

Depending on context, synonyms include femaleness, femineity, womanishness, womanliness, womanness.

Antonyms for muliebrity

Common opposites include masculinity, manhood, manliness, mannishness, virility.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include womanhood, womanliness, womanlikeness, femineity, femmeness, feminism.

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