maleness

Noun

Meaning

the properties characteristic of the male sex

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

masculinity power manliness male gender determination masculine courage bravery potency forceful manhood boldness macho strength
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Antonyms

femaleness sexuality disposition femininity womanhood docility
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Hypernyms

sex gender sexuality

Hyponyms

virility

Anagrams

lameness maneless nameless salesmen Esselman meanless

Examples

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question. Andrew Cohen

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. D. H. Lawrence

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true. Bell hooks

Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems. Ellen Willis

A rise in unabashed maleness, exemplified by Loaded magazine and lad culture in general, would be very much part of the Britpop era. Source: Internet

As we stand in the cold and rusty water, fishing feels less like a ritual of maleness than a ritual of growing up — something passed between child and parent. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

malemute malender malenders Malenfant malengine Malenglish