Synonyms for masculinity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : mas-kyuh-lin |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæs kyə lɪn |
Définition of masculinity
Origin :- 1748; see masculine + -ity. Earlier in same sense was masculineness (1660s).
- noun manliness
- The question then arises why is the qualification of masculinity required?
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
- Our former ideas of femininity and of masculinity were faulty.
- Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
- Poor old Pa was the shining example of masculinity in her eyes.
- Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl
- He also seriously thought that sensitiveness was a part of masculinity.
- Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
- These are all of a kind suited to young Japanese masculinity.
- Extract from : « Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories » by Mrs. M. Chaplin Ayrton
- Four boys seemed a superfluity of masculinity in one household.
- Extract from : « The Secret Life » by Elizabeth Bisland
- The ancient kings were the joyous apotheosis of masculinity.
- Extract from : « Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man Made World » by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- There was something in his masculinity that never suggested sex.
- Extract from : « Why Joan? » by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
- The "College" type makes a cult of masculinity of body and of brain.
- Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy
- Man is something only as my quality (property), like masculinity or femininity.
- Extract from : « The Ego and His Own » by Max Stirner
Antonyms for masculinity
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