Feminine ending

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Feminine ending, in grammatical gender, is the final syllable or suffixed letters that mark words as feminine.

Feminine ending may also refer to:

  • Feminine ending, in meter, a line of verse that ends with an unstressed syllable. See Masculine and feminine endings
  • Feminine ending or feminine cadence, a term in music theory for a phrase or movement that ends in an unstressed note or weak cadence
  • Feminine Endings, a 1991 feminist critique by musicologist Susan McClary
  • A Feminine Ending, a 2008 play by Sarah Treem
  • Feminine Endings, a 2008 short novel by Neil Gaiman

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