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• n  the properties characteristic of the female sex

• Some of the appeal, surely, has been her wholesome country-club blond good looks, her impeccable clothes sense, her unmistakable femaleness, even as she conditioned, dieted, lifted .
• Early in her career, Margaret Mead, for example, set out to show how even the notions of maleness and femaleness vary from place to place.
• But before the film whirs to a muddled flat-broke finish, Actress Moreau forcefully demonstrates the verve, style and flamboyant femaleness that make her the envy of European sex .

• feminineness

• maleness

Quotes

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• Kathleen Parker in Huffington Post (blog)
  Parker posted a controversial column on Wednesday entitled "Obama: Our first female president" in which she argues that the President "displays many tropes of femaleness."