You can think of -hood as a container that holds people of one kind. Sometimes what matters is the state of being inside it — childhood, . Sometimes what matters is everyone inside it taken together — a neighbourhood is the neighbours as one body. Womanhood opens both ways: the state of being a woman, and the women as a whole. A third use looks at what has been packed into the container — the qualities people expect a woman to have once she is in it.
From the word’s history
From Middle English womanhoode (variants wommanhod, whomanhode), by surface analysis woman + -hood — the container is right there in the spelling.
來自中古英語 womanhoode，拆開來就是 woman 加 -hood。容器的畫面直接寫在字面上。
Wiktionary 'womanhood' etymology supplied in this packet (From Middle English womanhoode... By surface analysis, woman + -hood).
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