as in maleness
the set of qualities considered appropriate for or characteristic of men
some men believe that wearing pink would undermine their masculinity
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Recent Examples of masculinity
Talk about ‘digital masculinity’ First, assume your kids will be exposed to this kind of content, said Melissa Greenberg, a clinical psychologist at Princeton Psychotherapy Center who was not involved in the study.
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Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
What better way to prove your masculinity than to join the Marines?
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
The real loss, at the altar of a warped vision of masculinity, is courage and skill, sacrificed so that a few good men can go on measuring themselves against their own hollow myth of toughness.
—Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
In an era when masculinity feels increasingly brittle and empathy is under attack, the best picture race is often a referendum on the direction of global politics.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
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Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
What better way to prove your masculinity than to join the Marines?
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
The real loss, at the altar of a warped vision of masculinity, is courage and skill, sacrificed so that a few good men can go on measuring themselves against their own hollow myth of toughness.
—Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
In an era when masculinity feels increasingly brittle and empathy is under attack, the best picture race is often a referendum on the direction of global politics.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for masculinity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for masculinity
Noun
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His boot camp experience serves as a coming-of-age journey for the character as his perspective on manhood changes.—
Dory Jackson,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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Moura suggests that Filho’s also exploring manhood, not so much in the macho sense, but in its connection to values.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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For someone like Eli, then, projecting movie-star-like virility and vigor was an exercise in social advancement, in distancing himself from his babushka forebears’ grim reality.—
David Kamp,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
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Beards were not signs of virility but of disorder.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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While there are a few male employees at Olta, most everything — from tending the crops to distilling the liquid to bottling it up — is done by women, a rarity in the machismo world of Mexican spirits.—
Allyson Reedy,
Denver Post,
24 Sep. 2025
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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
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“Masculinity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masculinity. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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