Feminine Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood as socially constructed, and there is also some evidence that some behaviors considered fe ...

, or femininity, normally refers to qualities positively associated with women. Feminine may also refer to: *

Feminine (grammar) In linguistics, grammatical gender system is a specific form of noun class system, where nouns are assigned with gender categories that are often not related to their real-world qualities. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns ...

, a grammatical gender * Feminine cadence, a final chord falling in a metrically weak position *

Feminine rhyme Masculine ending and feminine ending are terms used in prosody, the study of verse form. "Masculine ending" refers to a line ending in a stressed syllable. "Feminine ending" is its opposite, describing a line ending in a stressless syllable. Th ...

, a rhyme that matches two or more syllables at the end of lines with the final syllable unstressed *'' Feminine Endings'', a musicological feminist work published in 1991

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