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

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 now, in 2020, a more complicated maleness at least superficially prevails in Nashville country.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2020

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