Definition of manliness
: the quality or state of being manly (as by having qualities such as strength or virility that are traditionally associated with a man)
They'd been trained to identify emotional repression as the essence of manliness. Men who broke down, or cried, or admitted to feeling fear, were sissies, weaklings, failures. Not men.— Pat Barker … the angular manliness of her gestures …— John Colapinto
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The first known use of manliness was in the 15th century
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