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gender vs femaleness

femaleness vs gender

gender and femaleness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
gender Yes No No No
femaleness Yes No No No
As nouns, femaleness is a hyponym of gender; that is, femaleness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gender:
  • gender: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
  • femaleness: the properties characteristic of the female sex
Other hyponyms of gender include maleness, masculinity, androgyny, bisexuality, hermaphroditism, feminineness.
gender (noun) femaleness (noun)
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles the properties characteristic of the female sex
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
Difference between gender and femaleness

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