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
Julia Knitel has a voice that breaks up the monochromatic maleness of the score.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
Majors once said in an interview that "nothing is a monolith — not Blackness, not maleness, not comic book villains."
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023
In “Take Me Out,” Lemming’s announcement that he’s gay, prompted by no scandal and involving no lover, is essentially a pretext for a disquisition on maleness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
He liked the easygoing camaraderie of it, the simple, stark maleness of it.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
