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Etymology

From French masculinité, from Old French, equivalent to masculine +‎ -ity. Earlier in same sense was masculineness.

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Noun

masculinity (usually uncountable, plural masculinities)

  1. 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:
      “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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