womanhood

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: wom=an=hood

CIDE DICTIONARY

womanhood, n. 

•  The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.  [1913 Webster]

  "Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood."  [1913 Webster]

  "Perhaps the smile and the tender tone
  Came out of her pitying womanhood."  [1913 Webster]
•  Women, collectively; womankind.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

womanhood, n.
1 female maturity.
2 womanly instinct.
3 womankind.

THESAURUS

womanhood

adulthood, adultness, age of consent, distaff side, driving age, fair sex, female sex, femaleness, feminacy, feminality, femineity, feminineness, femininity, flower of age, full age, full bloom, full growth, fullgrownness, gentlewomanliness, girlishness, grown-upness, ladylikeness, legal age, legalis homo, little-girlishness, maidenhood, maidenliness, majority, manhood, manlihood, matronage, matronhood, matronliness, matronship, mature age, maturity, muliebrity, prime, prime of life, ripe age, riper years, second sex, softer sex, the eternal feminine, toga virilis, virility, weaker sex, weaker vessel, woman, womanishness, womanity, womankind, womanlihood, womanlikeness, womanliness, women, womenfolk, womenfolks, years of discretion

ROGET THESAURUS

womanhood

Woman

N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.