womanhood

Definitions

• the state or condition of being an adult female human being, as distinguished from a child or a man Compare adulthood. Contrast manhood and childhood.
• all of the adult female human beingss of a given locality, region, district, country, nation or state, or all of the adult female humans pertaining to a given human subgroup (culture, ethnicity, race, etc.), regarded collectively
• the idealized nature of an adult female human: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness, as regarded collectively
• the self-concept of a woman (an adult female human being) 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.
• (euphemism) the female genitalia, especially the vulva