There are various words used to refer to the quality of being a woman. The term womanhood merely means the state of being a woman, having passed the menarche; "femininity" is used to refer to a set of typical female qualities associated with a certain attitude to gender roles; "womanliness" is like "femininity", but is usually associated with a different view of gender roles; "femaleness" is a general term, but is often used as shorthand for "human femaleness"; "distaff" is an archaic adjective derived from women's conventional role as a spinner, now used only as a deliberate archaism; is a neologism meant to provide a female counterpart of "virility", but used very loosely, sometimes to mean merely , sometimes and sometimes even as a collective term for women.
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