muliebrity
The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood.
countable, literary, uncountable
The Ladies of Rhodes hearing that you have loſt, / A capitoll part of your Lady ware, / Haue made their petition to Cupid, / To plague you aboue all other, / As one preiuditiall to their muliebritie.
The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood.
countable, literary, uncountable
Janie's story of personal growth may be charted as one that travels from mules to muliebrity.
The state of puberty in a female.
countable, uncountable
Where it comes from
From Late Latin muliebritās (“womanhood; womanliness”), from Latin muliēbris (“feminine, womanly”) + -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); or from muliēbris + -ity; compare Middle French muliebrité. Muliēbris is derived from mulier (“woman; wife”) (from mollior (“softer; milder; weaker”), comparative form of mollis (“soft; mild, tender; weak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft; tender; weak”)) + -brīs (noun suffix denoting a person).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry muliebrity (CC BY-SA 4.0).