[f. L. fēmine-us womanish (f fēmina) + -ITY.] The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness; womanishness.
1820. Coleridge, Lett., Convers., etc., I. 72. The very essence of femineity seems to speak in the few and delicate, yet true and touching words. Ibid., II. 228. Of all men I ever knew Wordsworth has the least femineity in his mind.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t. (1883), 188. It had so much woman in it,—muliebrity, as well as femineity.
