Distaff
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: of, relating to, or characteristic of women referring to the maternal side of a family
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (see Etymology), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist. the part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only women considered as a group
Feminine
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: Of or pertaining to woman.Having the qualities of a woman.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females.Having the qualities associated with a woman or the female gender; suitable to, or characteristic of, a woman; nurturing; not masculine or aggressive.Grammatical gender distinction in languages that have it such as Spanish and Hindi that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The female principle(Obsolete or Colloquial): A woman.Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.
Example sentence: I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.