Womanhood

Quick meaning: Womanhood is a noun meaning The state or condition of being a woman, as contrasted with being a girl, man, boy, or nonbinary.

Meaning

The state or condition of being a woman, as contrasted with being a girl, man, boy, or nonbinary.

More Meanings

1. All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.
2. The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively.
3. (euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
4. The self-concept of a woman with respect to her possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness; a woman's sense or view of herself as being more or less womanly.

Example Sentences

She was a vigorous youth poised on the brink of womanhood.

"I swear, even in this most holy hour of completed Womanhood, that I will abandon Evil and cherish Good."

From the kitchen comes the even murmur of their voices. Mother and daughter: the protocols of womanhood being passed on, generation to generation.

There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!

Word Forms

• womanhoods
• womanhead
• womonhood
• womynhood
• wommonhood

Synonyms for womanhood

Depending on context, synonyms include womanishness, womanliness, woman.

Antonyms for womanhood

Common opposites include manhood, mankind, mannishness, manliness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include woman, muliebrity, femininity, wife, composition, womankind.

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