maleness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maleness
Noun
  • Maybe masculinity still does mean taking care of and protecting your partner, being the breadwinner and remaining stoic all the same.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Tate, meanwhile, is a former professional kickboxer who amassed millions of followers on social media while pushing his polarizing brand of far-right toxic masculinity.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over the course of the novel, Agu undergoes a treacherous coming of age, shedding his former identity as a bookish boy and entering into a manhood marked by extraordinary violence, abuse and horror.
    Katie Kitamura August 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
  • And all this manhood, all this masculinity just strips away and falls apart and all we are left with is a heap of a human being, a small human being with all his frailties.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But just like the men who understood changing a diaper in the 1990s didn't take away their manliness, so can participating in their spouse's emotional needs.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There's a true earthy manliness that's really f---ing raw and awesome.
    Yolanda Machado, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Beards emerged as legible emblems of male virility and authority just as women began demanding the vote.
    Book Marks August 1, Literary Hub, 1 Aug. 2025
  • This emphasis on women’s bodies and behaviors is especially conspicuous amid a broader cultural preoccupation with male virility.
    Lucy Tu, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Gudsen's fractured identity—swaggering machismo versus devoted family man—might suggest dissociative identity disorder, but Lehane resists reducing him to a clinical label.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But for readers, the brutality of Girlie’s work chronicles is offset by her personality—she’s got machismo, smarts, swagger.
    Sarah Rose Etter, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
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