Crossword clues for masculinity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Masculinity \Mas`cu*lin"i*ty\, n. The state or quality of being masculine; masculineness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1748; see masculine + -ity. Earlier in same sense was masculineness (1660s).
Wiktionary
n. The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness
WordNet
n. the properties characteristic of the male sex [syn: maleness] [ant: femaleness]
the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men [ant: femininity]
Wikipedia
Masculinity (also called boyhood, manliness, machismo, or manhood) is a set of attributes, behaviors and roles generally associated with boys and men. Masculinity is socially constructed, but made up of both socially-defined and biologically-created factors, distinct from the definition of the male biological sex. Both males and females can exhibit masculine traits and behavior. Those exhibiting both masculine and feminine characteristics are considered androgynous, and feminist philosophers have argued that gender ambiguity may blur gender classification.
Masculine traits include courage, independence and assertiveness. These traits vary by location and context, and are influenced by social and cultural factors. An overemphasis on masculinity and power, often associated with a disregard for consequences and responsibility, is known as machismo.
Usage examples of "masculinity".
If men and women are to be truly equal, should masculinity and femininity merge into one androgynous, indivisible form of gender, or should we seek to remove the sexual connotation from gender altogether?
At first the idea of merging masculinity and femininity in order to create an androgynous society recalls the bland, androgynous Chinese society of Maozedong.
In an essay which we might take as a practical example of how this dichotomy can be deconstructed, Richard Meyer writes, in the same volume, about the film star Rock Hudson, once the screen epitome of attractive heterosexual masculinity.
By forcibly feminizing him, she hopes to show that she is more powerful than he, and that she can wreak havoc on his nascent masculinity anytime she pleases.
Even the curls could not conceal the inherent masculinity of Jarg and Taamuz.
They resist the simplistic and oppositional thinking that is so repeatedly shown by Kundera to be a fundamental characteristic of the sexual politics of culturally dominant masculinity.
Perhaps, thought Curio cynically, because he radiated masculinity without owning beauty of face.
I knew something of Howard Hugheshis physical courage, the curious overdriven masculinity of his films, the fear of disease that would deliver him, at the end of his life, to the wrong side of a sterile cell door.
That was the rationale behind early parthenogenesis experiments on Herlandiaattempting to cull masculinity from the human process entirely.
His face had a hewn masculinity to it, planar and strong, and nothing detracted from the way he looked in her eyes, not even the soot on his face and the water dripping from his hair.
But one by one, the other moths closed their female pudenda, accepting defeat and masculinity.
There are lots of assiduously propagated myths about the almost mystical implications of lateralization in the human brain, ranging from radical feminist and biological determinist views on left-brain cognitive masculinity versus right-brain affective femininity to the claims of the Catholic Nobel Prizewinning neurophysiologist Sir John Eccles, who asserts that only humans show such functional lateralization, and that the left hemisphere is the seat of the soul.
Even coarse and inconsiderate men are restrained from it by the fact that the sympathy of the woman turns naturally to the victim of physical brutality and against the bully, the Thackerayan notion to the contrary being one of the illusions of literary masculinity.
Then finally, after increasingly scathing comments from Kai regarding his masculinity, he tested the water by dipping a single toe in the frigid lake.
Government-supplied Ritalin for boys who show signs of the disease called masculinity.