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LADYLIKENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ladylikeness mean?
• LADYLIKENESS (noun)
The noun LADYLIKENESS has 1 sense:
1. behavior befitting a lady
Familiarity information: LADYLIKENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Behavior befitting a lady
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("ladylikeness" is a kind of...):
femininity; muliebrity (the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women)
Derivation:
ladylike (befitting a woman of good breeding)
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