maleness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
To be “manly” is to be secure in one’s maleness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
A program note describes the approach as a “lens of the divine feminine,” albeit one that does not reject maleness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Majors once said in an interview that "nothing is a monolith — not Blackness, not maleness, not comic book villains."
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023
But it seemed to me that both of these concepts, career and maleness, were only subdivisions of the larger idea of race.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
