Definitions

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  • adjective informal Very feminine.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ feminine

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Examples

  • Yet it is these same "superfeminine" women who are foolishly claiming equality with men.

    Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

  • Mrs. Dyer was superfeminine in the kimono in which she received Carol.

    Main Street 2004

  • Aegina would have been superfeminine had she not joyously surrendered.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • I joke, I dash forward with haste; my excitement endows me with a superfeminine self-possession.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

  • Mrs. Dyer was superfeminine in the kimono in which she received Carol.

    Main Street 1920

  • Mrs. Dyer was superfeminine in the kimono in which she received Carol.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • For this superfeminine discretion Alan repaid her by -- being Alan.

    The Quicksand 1902

  • For this superfeminine discretion Alan repaid her by -- being Alan.

    The Descent of Man and Other Stories Edith Wharton 1899

  • If the cloud which Jupiter assumed was of the imperial tone and of the fascinating fashion which the groveller in the mud creates, Aegina would have been superfeminine had she not joyously surrendered.

    My Tropic Isle 1887

  • I have said nothing about my wife (who has been in a state not only of superhuman, but of superfeminine, activity for the last three months) meaning to leave her the last page to speak for herself.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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