Feminine

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Feminine normally refers to qualities positively associated with women or girls (see Femininity). A near synonym is womanly; antonyms include unfeminine, unwomanly, manish and epicene.

It can also refer to:

• Feminine grammatical gender, a class of words and forms normally including reference to women
• Feminine rhyme, where two or more syllables match, sometimes with unstressed final syllable
• Feminine cadence, a final chord falling in a metrically weak position

[edit] See also

• Feminine ending (disambiguation)
• Masculine (disambiguation)