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English
Etymology
From French masculinité, from Old French, equivalent to masculine + -ity. Earlier in same sense was masculineness.
Pronunciation
Noun
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".
2021 January 9, Sandee LaMotte, “Valuing male dominance may predict support for Trump, study says”, in CNN[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 2 October 2025:“What this work shows is that masculinity is not just an ideology that men strive to achieve. It’s something we value as a culture,” said lead author Theresa Vescio, a professor of psychology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University.
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degree or property of being masculine
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: maskulinotasun
- Bengali: পুরুষত্ব (bn) (puruśotto)
- Bulgarian: мъжественост (bg) f (măžestvenost)
- Catalan: masculinitat f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 男子特徵 / 男子特征 (nánzǐ tèzhēng)
- Czech: mužství n
- Danish: maskulinitet c
- Dutch: mannelijkheid (nl) f, masculiniteit (nl) f
- Esperanto: vireco, iĉeco (neologism)
- Finnish: miehekkyys (fi), maskuliinisuus (fi)
- French: masculinité (fr) f
- Galician: masculinidade (gl) f
- Georgian: ვაჟკაცურობა (važḳacuroba)
- German: Männlichkeit (de) f, Maskulinität (de) f
- Greek: αρρενωπότητα (el) f (arrenopótita)
- Hindi: मर्दानगी (hi) f (mardāngī)
- Hungarian: férfiasság (hu)
- Indonesian: maskulinitas (id)
- Irish: fearúlacht f, fireannacht f
- Italian: mascolinità (it) f
- Japanese: 男らしさ (otoko-rashisa), 漢らしさ (otoko-rashisa)
- Korean: 남성성(男性性) (namseongseong)
- Latin: virīlitās f, masculīnitās f
- Latvian: vīrišķība f, vīrišķīgums m
- Lithuanian: vyriškùmas m
- Maltese: maskulinità f
- Māori: tānetanga
- Persian: مردانگی (fa) (mardânegi)
- Polish: męskość (pl) f
- Portuguese: masculinidade (pt) f
- Romanian: masculinitate (ro) f
- Russian: му́жественность (ru) f (múžestvennostʹ), маскули́нность (ru) f (maskulínnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: mužévnōst (sh) f, муже́вно̄ст f, mȕškōst (sh) f, му̏шко̄ст f
- Slovak: mužnosť
- Spanish: masculinidad (es) f
- Swedish: maskulinitet (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagkalalaki
- Tajik: мардонагӣ (tg) (mardonagi)
- Tamil: ஆண்மை (ta) (āṇmai)
- Telugu: మగతనం (magatanaṁ)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: maskülenlik, maskülenite, erkeklik (tr), erkeksilik (tr), erillik (tr)
- Urdu: مردانگی f (mardāngī)
- Zulu: ubudoda class 14
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