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| Main Entry: |
masculinity/masculine
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| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | manly |
| Synonyms: | andric, gender, macho*, male, manful, mannish, potent, virile |
| Antonyms: | feminine |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | manhood/womanhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical maturity and strength of adult male or female |
| Synonyms: | adulthood, coming of age, fecundity, femininity, fertility, manfulness, manliness, masculinity, mettle, potency, virility, womanliness, womanness |
| Antonyms: | childhood |
| Main Entry: | sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male or female gender |
| Synonyms: | femininity, manhood, manliness, masculinity, sexuality, womanhood, womanliness |
| Notes: | gender is the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; sex is either of the two categories, male or female, into which most organisms are divided |
Example Sentences
- Instead, she became a journalist and a cultural critic, fascinated by icons of masculinity and femininity.
- Colleges face a challenge to masculinity that bulging muscles, rumbling voices, and jacked-up pickup trucks won't remedy.
- The pathetic posturing of in-your-face macho has replaced a once self-confident masculinity.
| Main Entry: | manhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maturity |
| Synonyms: | adulthood, boldness, bravery, chivalry, courage, daring, determination, firmness, forcefulness, fortitude, gallantry, hardihood, honor, machismo, manfulness, manliness, masculinity, mettle, nobility, potency, resoluteness, resolution, self-reliance, spirit, sturdiness, tenacity, valor, virility |
| Main Entry: | sexuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual character |
| Synonyms: | bisexuality, femininity, homosexuality, lesbianism, masculinity |
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| Main Entry: | sexuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
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Adjectives: |
age, cold, male, straight, AC/DC, Circean, asexual, astride, bent, bisexual, butch, buxom, callipygian, carnal, deviant, easy, effeminate, epicene, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, faggy, fast, feminine, flaming, frigid, gay, gender, hard, hot, hung, impotent, ithyphallic, kinky, lascivious, latent, lewd, liberated, lusty, macho, mammary, manly, masculine, nellie, neuter, nubile, off, phallic, priapic, pubic, pudibund, pure, racy, raunchy, ruttish, salacious, salt, sensual, situational, soft, stag, steamy, sterile, sucked dry, sultry, supermacho, taboo, throbbing, transsexual, undersexed, unisexual, unsexual, virile, voluptuous, wanton, well
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