womanhood

IPA: wˈʊmʌnhʊd

The state or condition of being a woman.
All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.
The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively.
The self-concept of a woman with respect to her possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness; a woman's sense or view of herself as being more or less womanly.
(euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.

Examples of "womanhood" in Sentences

But marriage, and particularly motherhood, weigh the heaviest in our definition of womanhood.
You can't suck manhood from the dugs of a creature whose only claim to womanhood is her petticoats.
I wonder if she gets a different kind of magic in exchange for the betrayal of the little ones, or whether a normal womanhood is it for her now.
Her church and creed might waver and sink, but that undefinable innocence which we call womanhood, would lead her, a Dian, through the fires of hell.
Refreshingly, director Lauren Montgomery and writers Gail Simone and Michael Jelenic do not simply toss the Wonder Woman character in a story where her womanhood is irrelevant.
Not to woman's skillful hands; not to her ready brain; not to the things of her womanhood upon which the world into which she goes alone to labor puts a price has the Master of Life committed this supreme thing; but to her _womanhood_ -- her sex.
There's also the racist Sharron Angle campaign ad that contrasts scary Hispanic gangsters with pure and innocent white children in much the same way that Bible Belt politicians used to speak of protecting the flower of young Southern womanhood from the "colored."
Any woman who falls outside the boundaries of a family pattern of expectation may feel she has failed or that her expression of womanhood is not valued, and when a woman believes she has failed at womanhood itself, she often abandons her root, the place of her failure.