Womanhood

/ˈwʊmənhʊd/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. The state or condition of being a woman, as contrasted with being a girl, man, boy, or nonbinary.
2. All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.
3. The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively.
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.
5. (euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.

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."

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!

[…]the white women, several of whom had been watching the massacre of the Negro men, pounced on the Negress. I do not wish to be understood as saying that these women were representatives of the womanhood of East St. Louis. Their faces showed, all too plainly, exactly who and what they were.

What hast thou done, / O womanhood of France, / Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife, / What hast thou done, amid this fateful strife. // To prove the pride of thine inheritance / In this fair land of freedom and romance?

She had cast off the terror of the leaping flame, the cold power of judgment that was even now being done, and the wise sadness of the tombs - cast them off and put them behind her, like the white shroud she wore, and now stood out the incarnation of lovely tempting womanhood, made more perfect - and in a way more spiritual - than ever woman was before.

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

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.

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Word Forms

• womanhoods
• womanhead
• womonhood
• womynhood
• wommonhood

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