Womanhood is the state of being a grown woman. Reach womanhood, the threshold of womanhood, women of the world in their womanhood.
It also means women taken collectively, as in the womanhood of a nation, which is a formal and rather old use. The -hood ending marks a state or a condition, as in childhood and neighbourhood, and it once meant simply a person's quality or rank.
1nounwomanhoodThe state of being a grown woman.
“The ceremony marks a girl's passage from childhood into womanhood.”
womanhood is a state.
Middle English womanhode, from woman plus -hood, from Old English had, a state or condition.
Middle English
womanhoode
English, today
womanhood
From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. by surface analysis, en + woman + hood.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA