womanhood

The state or condition of being a woman.countableuncountable

• She was a vigorous youth poised on the brink of womanhood.

All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.countableuncountable

• There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!
• What hast thou done, / O womanhood of France, / Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife, / What hast thou done, amid this fateful strife. // To prove the pride of thine inheritance / In this fair land of freedom and romance?

The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively.countableuncountable

• From the kitchen comes the even murmur of their voices. Mother and daughter: the protocols of womanhood being passed on, generation to generation.

The self-concept of a woman 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.countableuncountable

The female genitalia, especially the vulva.countableeuphemisticuncountable

• Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.