humorous. [f. WOMAN sb. + -ITY, after humanity.] The normal disposition or character of womankind.
1843. Mrs. Browning, Lett. R. H. Horne (1877), I. xviii. 81. I will be secret beyond womanity, if you are frank beyond discretion.
1868. Helps, Realmah, I. vi. 115. Mrs. Milverton and Lady Ellesmere are very like ordinary women. Womanity is strong in them.
1892. M. C. Salaman, Woman—through a Man’s Eyeglass, 6. Each fresh experience of love adds to one’s store of sympathy, and increases one’s knowledge of ‘Womanity’—if I may be allowed the term—and consequently one’s power of loving.
1896. Daily Tel., 4 March, 7/3. What will it profit a woman to gain an Oxford degree and lose her womanity?
