Queenhood

Quick meaning: Queenhood is a noun meaning The state, rank, or status of a queen.

Meaning

The state, rank, or status of a queen.

More Meanings

1. Racially charged pedestalization of Black women, often as an extension of Afrocentric idealization, that is in fact damaging to gender equality; a particular type of "benevolent" sexism.
2. (rare) An apex or pinnacle.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: queenliness

"[…] They say my House loves beauty—they did and they do—and there's a kind of beauty in dying beautifully … in wasting away … half-alive, half-dead, with the very queenhood of your power."

I—who have 'gone the gamut' from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new black sun—am qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of the new consciousness now. New consciousness and trudge-toward-progress.

Word Forms

• queenhoods

Synonyms for queenhood

Depending on context, synonyms include queenship, queendom, queenliness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include queenship, queenliness, queendom, princesshood, kingship, royalness.

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