femaleness
/ˈfiːmeɪlnɪs/noun
femaleness is a noun meaning “The characteristic, state or condition of being female” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-M-A-L-E-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of femaleness is femalenesses.
What does femaleness mean?
noun
- 1
The characteristic, state or condition of being female.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce femaleness?
- /ˈfiːmeɪlnɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of femaleness
- femalenesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is femaleness?
Femaleness appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Femaleness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense characteristic, state or condition of being female:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Weiblichkeit |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does femaleness come from?
From female + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).