masculinity

Noun

Meaning

The state or quality of being masculine; masculineness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

maleness manliness male sex gender sexuality potency femininity manhood macho strength homosexuality vigor sexism lesbianism
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Antonyms

femininity feminineness cowardice womanhood girlhood woman
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Hypernyms

sex gender sexuality trait

Hyponyms

manliness virility boyishness machismo manfulness hoydenism

Phrases with the word

aggressive masculinity positive actions toward masculinity positive attitudes toward masculinity positive feelings toward masculinity heteronormative masculinity false masculinity

Examples

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. Gloria Steinem

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. Joyce Carol Oates

The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat. Bell hooks

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. Andrea Dworkin

Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.” Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. Camille Paglia

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity. Otto Weininger

Close letter words and terms

masculinist masculinistic masculinistically masculinizable masculinization masculinize