Feminine is also, less frequently, used to refer to physical features: a lovely feminine figure small, feminine hands. In American and Western European culture, these have traditionally included features such as delicacy, gentleness, gracefulness, and patience: to dance with feminine grace a feminine sensitivity to moods. Feminine refers essentially to qualities or behaviors deemed by a culture or society to be especially appropriate to or ideally associated with women and girls.
It contrasts with male in all uses: her oldest female relative the female parts of the flower. Female, which is applied to plants and animals as well as to human beings, is a biological or physiological descriptor, classifying individuals on the basis of their potential or actual ability to produce offspring in bisexual reproduction.
Female, feminine, effeminate are adjectives that describe women and girls or attributes and conduct culturally ascribed to them.
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