womanhood

• womanhead (obsolete)
• womonhood, womynhood, wommonhood (feminist spellings; rare; see usage notes at woman)

From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of Middle English womanhede, equivalent to woman +‎ -hood.

womanhood (countable and uncountable, plural womanhoods)

1. The state of being a woman.
2. All the qualities typical of women.
3. Women considered as a group.
4. (euphemistic) The vulva.
   • 2007, Mark A. Cherpak, Circle of Fear: Uncharted Worlds (page 264)

     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.

• manhood