Difference between Feminine and Womanlike

What is the difference between Feminine and Womanlike?

Feminine as an adjective is of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly. while Womanlike as an adjective is resembling a woman.

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: You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.

Womanlike

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Resembling a woman.Befitting a woman; feminine.

We hope you now know whether to use Feminine or Womanlike in your sentence.

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