womankind

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   old-fashioned: women considered collectively, especially in contrast with men

   The essayist spoke of womankind as though every woman shared the same ambitions.

From Middle English wommankynde, formed from woman + kind in its older collective sense "race or class." The word has denoted women as a group since the Middle Ages and is now often marked as old-fashioned.

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