different between maidenhood vs muliebrity

English

Etymology

From Middle English maydenhode, meidenhod, ma?denhad, from Old English mæ?denh?d (“maidenhood”), equivalent to maiden +? -hood.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?me?d(?)nh?d/

Noun

maidenhood (countable and uncountable, plural maidenhoods)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being a maiden; the time when one is a maiden or young girl.
2. A woman's virginity or maidenhead.
3. Freshness; newness.

Synonyms

• maidhood

Related terms

• maidenhead

Translations

English

Etymology

From Late Latin muliebrit?s (“womanhood; womanliness”), from Latin muli?bris (“feminine, womanly”) + -t?s (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); or from muli?bris +? -ity; compare Middle French muliebrité. Muli?bris is derived from mulier (“woman; wife”) (from mollior (“softer; milder; weaker”), comparative form of mollis (“soft; mild, tender; weak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft; tender; weak”)) + -br?s (noun suffix denoting a person).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mju?l???b??ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mjuli??b??ti/, /-?i/
• Hyphenation: mu?li?e?bri?ty

Noun

muliebrity (countable and uncountable, plural muliebrities)

1. (literary) The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood.

   Synonyms: femaleness, femineity, womanishness, womanliness, womanness

   Antonyms: masculinity, manhood, manliness, mannishness, virility
2. (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood.
3. (physiology) The state of puberty in a female.

Alternative forms

• muliebritie (obsolete)

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References

Further reading

• femininity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia