manliness
noun/ˈmænlɪnəs/
Etymology
From Middle English manlynes, manlynesse. By surface analysis, manly + -ness.
- inherited from manlynes
Definitions
The quality of being manly
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,
- ‘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.
Male genitals.
Humanity, the quality of being human.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for manliness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA