feminineness

Her cool, matter-of-fact speech belied her — or so Daylight thought, looking at her perturbed feminineness, at the rounded lines of her figure, the breast that deeply rose and fell, and at the color that was now excited in her cheeks.

Chapter XIII 2010

He always perturbedly harked back to her feminineness.

Chapter 6 2010

You could not say she was masculine, but there was a something stripped away from her which most people class as feminineness.

The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

He always perturbedly harked back to her feminineness.

Tempest 1911

Her cool, matter-of-fact speech belied her -- or so Daylight thought, looking at her perturbed feminineness, at the rounded lines of her figure, the breast that deeply rose and fell, and at the color that was now excited in her cheeks.

Chapter XIII 1910

He always perturbedly harked back to her feminineness.

Adventure Jack London 1896

It was such a feminineness, however, as is rarest to find in woman, though not the appreciation of it; perhaps it is not to be found at all in woman, but is only the feminine in man.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

It is a weakness, however, of a peculiar kind, not arising from want of personal courage, or any specific defect of faculty, but rather an intellectual feminineness, which feels a necessity of ever leaning on the breast of others, and of reclining on those who are all the while known to be inferiors.

Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

It is a weakness, however, of a peculiar kind, not arising from want of personal courage, or any specific defect of faculty, but rather an intellectual feminineness, which feels a necessity of ever leaning on the breasts of others, and of reclining on those who are all the while known to be inferiors.

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803