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

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

But these two definitions, career and maleness, were a lot clearer to me than the idea of race.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers