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feminine

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1. feminine - Noun

2. feminine - Adjective

3. feminine - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

A woman.

Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.

Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. Karl Marx

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' Oscar Niemeyer

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' Sigmund Freud

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. Judith Butler

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. Stendhal

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