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masculinity
/ˌmæskjəˈlɪnɪti/
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What does masculinity mean?
noun
- The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness.
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If she dreams of being shaved, she will assume so much masculinity that men will turn from her in disgust.
It would be an easy matter, indeed, to demonstrate that superior talent in man is practically always accompanied by this feminine flavour—that complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.
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In the heart of its rowdiness there is a sort of mad modesty; a desire to melt the separate soul into the mass of unpretentious masculinity.
Her actions may be considered as perilously near to the border of masculinity, yet she is as far from either coarseness or low thoughts as is the North from the South Pole.
Terry put in practice his pet conviction that a woman loves to be mastered, and by sheer brute force, in all the pride and passion of his intense masculinity, he tried to master this woman.