Feminine normally refers to qualities positively associated with women or girls (see Femininity). A near synonym is womanly; antonyms include unfeminine, unwomanly, manish and epicene. Epicene is an Adjective (sometimes substantive) for loss of Gender distinction often specific loss of Masculinity.
It can also refer to:
- Feminine grammatical gender, a class of words and forms normally including reference to women
- Feminine rhyme, where two or more syllables match, sometimes with unstressed final syllable
- Feminine cadence, a final chord falling in a metrically weak position
See also
- Feminine ending (disambiguation)
- Masculine (disambiguation)
Dictionary
feminine
-adjective
- Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.
- Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females.
- Having the qualities associated with a woman or the female gender; suitable to, or characteristic of, a woman; nurturing; not masculine or aggressive.
- (grammar) Grammatical gender distinction in languages that have it such as Spanish and Hindi that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.
-adverb
- Of or pertaining to woman.
- Having the qualities of a woman.
-noun
- The female principle
- (Obsolete or Colloquial): A woman.
- (grammar) 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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