Definition of Feminine

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Feminine

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.

A woman.

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.

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Feminine Quotations

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
Erma Bombeck

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

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

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Lord Byron

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
Germaine Greer

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

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

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
Nancy Reagan

Feminine Translations

feminine in Afrikaans is vroulik
feminine in Danish is kvindelig
feminine in Dutch is vrouwelijk
feminine in German is weiblich
feminine in Norwegian is feminin, kvinnelig
feminine in Spanish is feminino
feminine in Swedish is kvinnlig

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