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

Across many decades and many cultures, maleness was defined by provision, procreation, and protection.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 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

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