manliness means 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. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.
Why this word is great
MANLINESS — [Noun] The quality of embodying the virtues and responsibilities traditionally associated with being a man, such as courage, integrity, and resilience. From Middle English manlynes, manlynesse, equivalent to manly (from Old English manlīc, "human, brave") + -ness (a suffix forming abstract nouns). Unlike "virility," which narrows the scope to sexual potency, or "machismo," which distorts it into a caricature of swaggering aggression, manliness is the broader, quieter architecture of durable character. It is the callused hand steadying a child's bicycle, the patient silence that mends a fence in a cold rain, and the weary shoulders that bear a family's worry without complaint—a practiced restraint that builds a world, transmuting raw power into responsible guardianship.
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- 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.“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,”
- Male genitals.“Dressed only in flip-flops and a fuzzy blue bathrobe, which would be long enough on the mayor of Munchkin Land but on me is literally indecent, I attack the mower in a yanking frenzy, flailing around until the dramatic conclusion, wherein the mower refuses to start even though it is confronted by the full extent of my manliness because my too-short robe has flapped open in a cloud of flying sweat ”
- Humanity, the quality of being human.“What might not have happened to men? What if cruelty had grown into a common passion? What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness, and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness—a foul creature to be incontinently slain.”