Manliness

Quick meaning: Manliness is a noun meaning (euphemistic, rare) Male genitals.

Meaning

(euphemistic, rare) Male genitals.

More Meanings

1. The quality of being manly; the set of qualities, traits and abilities considered appropriate to men (as opposed to women or children); similarity to a man.
2. (rare) Humanity, the quality of being human.

Example Sentences

Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.

‘He he!’ simpered Brass, who, in his deep debasement, really seemed to have changed sexes with his sister, and to have made over to her any spark of manliness he might have possessed.

Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure The Sense of Man, and all his Mind possess, As Beauty’s lovely Bait, that doth procure Great Warriors oft their Rigour to repress; And mighty Hands forget their Manliness,

With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes, And blessed the cot where every pleasure rose; And kissed her thoughtless babes with many a tear, And clasped them close, in sorrow doubly dear; Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief In all the silent manliness of grief.

Word Forms

• manlinesses

Synonyms for manliness

Depending on context, synonyms include virility, masculinity, manfulness, mannishness, maleness, manhood.

Antonyms for manliness

Common opposites include unmanliness, womanliness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include manfulness, virility, masculinity, manhood, potency, manship.

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