maleness

Example Sentences

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To be “manly” is to be secure in one’s maleness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Even men who lack Y chromosomes still have a copy of the SRY region on one of their X chromosomes, which accounts for their maleness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Majors once said in an interview that "nothing is a monolith — not Blackness, not maleness, not comic book villains."

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2023

“It’s tapping into something to do with identity and white maleness, but without necessarily being very critical of it,” Dean observes.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021

His mind was nothing like hers; she tried to understand in which ideas his maleness lay.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen