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
A program note describes the approach as a “lens of the divine feminine,” albeit one that does not reject maleness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Majors once said in an interview that "nothing is a monolith — not Blackness, not maleness, not comic book villains."
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023
And yet Bond’s regressive maleness thrived in films that grossed billions worldwide, while the Beatles became secular saints, beloved and immortal, light-years away from the insurrectionists of 1962.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
He liked the easygoing camaraderie of it, the simple, stark maleness of it.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
