释义 |
womanness rare.|ˈwʊmənnɪs| [f. woman n. + -ness.] Womanliness; the quality of being a woman.
1845Mrs. Carlyle in Jane Welsh Carlyle (1924) 230 The only chance of my getting any right good of him was to make him forget my womanness. 1881Blackw. Mag. Oct. 433 Above..all stood her feminineness, her thorough womanness. 1926D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent ii. 29 They hated her mechanically for the very fact that she was a woman. They hated her womanness. 1971Guardian 2 Dec. 11/4 There may be something about ‘woman-ness’ which has to be defined in its own terms, not by reference to maleness. |