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Masculinity

noun

The properties characteristic of the male sex. Synonym: maleness.

The trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men.

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"Masculinity" Quotes from Famous Books

... girls who ride straight and don't know what it is to have a headache, very often takes the form of boyishness. Let us console ourselves with the fact that, being perfectly natural, Jane has escaped masculinity.' ...

— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

... were a prey to the most thrilling terrors. You were a moving picture of tender masculinity in distress. You let bashfulness like a worm i' th' bud prey upon your damask cheek. Have you a damask cheek? Stand out! I wish to consider you impartially. YOU needn't look at ...

— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... operation, marked changes follow, which vary much in detail, but carry certain general similarities. The face and body age rapidly in appearance, and there is a slowing up of functions of the organs, with a tendency to masculinity in tastes, ...

— The Goat-gland Transplantation • Sydney B. Flower

... not true to say that during these months he had grown to hate Brandon, but he had come, more and more, to despise and condemn him. The effeminacy in his own nature had from the first both shrunk from and been attracted by the masculinity in Brandon. ...

— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole

... to similar propositions before. It was a perennial threat which in the passing of years had lost its power to terrify. Yet with the inevitable feminine impulse to smooth the feathers of ruffled masculinity, she began, "When I drove by Susan Fitzgerald's ...

— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

Words linked to "Masculinity" : femininity, masculine, hoydenism, boyishness, femaleness, manliness, trait, gender, virility, sexuality, manfulness, sex, machismo, tomboyishness