From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmasculinitymas‧cu‧lin‧i‧ty /ˌmæskjəˈlɪnəti/ noun [uncountable] MANthe features and qualities considered to be typical of men OPP femininity Children’s ideas of masculinity tend to come from their fathers. boys trying to prove their masculinity
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masculinity• Man can not experience the fullness of his masculinity and powers of reproduction without a woman, and viceversa.• He looked, he had to admit, the very picture of obscene masculinity.• Conception was external proof of masculinity.• A man who can not attain his manhood through an affirmative role resorts to the lowest terms of masculinity.• It was an understanding of masculinity that Gerald had already embraced.• He has often been phoned by cold callers trying the masculinity trip on him.• The males, whom the women abuse from birth, spend their lives in a futile pursuit of their masculinity.• Any animal with a solitary set of chromosomes is hence doomed to masculinity. 