masculinity
noun
masculine quality; the quality of possessing or emphasizing traits perceived as masculine.
masculinities
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pluralof masculinity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Ben Hurst from Beyond Equality, a UK-based organisation focused on "rethinking masculinities", speaks to young men in schools.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
There is not, for example, enough deep research on African American masculinities, Latino masculinities, poor masculinities or rural masculinities.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 3, 2023
We were all dressed in suits, and some of us who were more effeminate or more borderless in our construction of Black masculinities were put into this very respectable kind of presentation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
During colonisation, certain features of British patriarchal masculinities were incorporated into southern Africa.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2019
The boreal pivot, whose journal is the awful, compact blue, may, for aught I know, be hobnobbing at this moment with the most masculine of starry masculinities.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
