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

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

“I thought of public success itself, I suppose, as part of maleness, and I deliberately turned my back on it, as I set my face against manhood,” she wrote.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2020

The confusion in my mind existed because I heard, read, and saw different definitions of both career and maleness.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers