masculinity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French masculinité, from Old French, equivalent to masculine + -ity. Earlier in same sense was masculineness.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (GenAm) IPA(key): /ˌmæskjəˈlɪnɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]masculinity (usually uncountable, plural masculinities)
- The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness.
- Over time, society's ideas of masculinity has greatly broadened.
- 1971, American Journal of Psychotherapy, volume 25, page 657:
- Of the six homosexual patients, three men finally overcame the underlying vaginaphobia, increased their heterosexual activities, and enhanced their masculinity.
- 2013, Elisabetta Girelli, Montgomery Clift, Queer Star, page 33:
- Steven Cohan highlights the suggestive qualities of Red River's dominant narrative, the opposition between the radically different masculinities Clift and Wayne represent: "the highly charged context between the soft boy and the hard man in Red River dramatizes such a shift in the mainstream culture's demands upon masculinity".
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[edit]Translations
[edit]degree or property of being masculine
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