Masculinity is an English word with synonyms like maleness or sex. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Masculinity in a sentence
Masculinity meaning
The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness.
Synonyms of Masculinity
Using Masculinity
- The main meaning on this page is: The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness.
- Useful related words include: maleness, sex, gender, sexuality.
- In the example corpus, masculinity often appears in combinations such as: toxic masculinity, of masculinity, masculinity and.
Context around Masculinity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Masculinity
- In this selection, "masculinity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, toxic, abandoned, black, embodied, now and begetting stand out and add context to how "masculinity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about toxic masculinity are meant and about toxic masculinity in part. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "masculinity" sits close to words such as adversary, bleed and compel, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with masculinity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Finally, the meat in “Digger” is in its study of abandoned masculinity begetting abandoned masculinity. (15 words)
But left unsaid is a common misreading of 's message and its supposed appeal to traditional masculinity. (17 words)
In school, when they do not properly perform Black masculinity, they get teased, bullied and sometimes literally stomped. (18 words)
Indeed, it has been argued the 2024 US presidential election is going to be, at least in part, a referendum on “the enlightened” masculinity embodied by Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, and the “toxic masculinity” of Donald Trump’s world. (42 words)
Blow’s lectures about “toxic masculinity” are meant to sow self-doubt in men and thus encourage some enlightened form of masculinity, but that won’t end sexual harassment any more than -style refusal by women to have sex will end war. (42 words)
Hart wrote this essay more than a century ago, and as a result, he had nothing to say on the problems that haunt masculinity-crisis books today: feminists, video games, puberty-blockers, pronouns, Priuses. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Indeed, it has been argued the 2024 US presidential election is going to be, at least in part, a referendum on “the enlightened” masculinity embodied by Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, and the “toxic masculinity” of Donald Trump’s world.
Those who perform exaggerated forms of masculinity, now often referred to as also commanded stages across the US, proving masculinity could be prodded as much as femininity.
Finally, the meat in “Digger” is in its study of abandoned masculinity begetting abandoned masculinity.
So while white masculinity has been explored in movies, TV, books, and journalism for years, there are far fewer spaces that examine black masculinity.
After spending years as a tomboy who was maligned for my masculinity as a woman, receiving praise for my masculinity at a ball was incredibly gratifying.
Blow’s lectures about “toxic masculinity” are meant to sow self-doubt in men and thus encourage some enlightened form of masculinity, but that won’t end sexual harassment any more than -style refusal by women to have sex will end war.
Interview with Cindy Cisler.") and see p. 119. Men and masculinity main Feminist theory has explored the social construction of masculinity and its implications for the goal of gender equality.
Actor Manoj Bajpayee recently weighed in on the ‘what is masculinity’ debate that he believes is ‘instigated’ bySandeep Reddy Vanga’s latest hit Animal.
A New York City native, Baldwin in the 1950s and ’60s with passionate essays that touched on racial discrimination, sexuality and masculinity.
Animal, which faced criticism for glorifying toxic masculinity and excessive violence, clashed with Vicky Kaushal and Meghna Gulzar’s Sam Bahadur.
But I suspect that the same politics that frets about 'toxic masculinity' in part gives rise to the most toxic form of manhood.
But left unsaid is a common misreading of 's message and its supposed appeal to traditional masculinity.
Dubus probes at masculinity’s wounds, its core beliefs about earning money as a means of caring for others, and exposes the selfishness and emptiness at its core.
Duffy’s Rapunzel is a strong young woman, determined to right the wrongs that surround her, freeing herself from binding feminine expectation and manipulation or weak masculinity.
Eddie Marsan has said he “felt vulnerable and afraid” when he was growing up around “white working class men” on a council estate full of “toxic masculinity” in the 1970s and 1980s.
For all of its faults when taken to excess, the traditional masculinity of which he claims to be a champion would demand that he stand firm against a howling mob.
Hart wrote this essay more than a century ago, and as a result, he had nothing to say on the problems that haunt masculinity-crisis books today: feminists, video games, puberty-blockers, pronouns, Priuses.
He’s masculinity incarnate, in all its confidence and anxieties — direct, sonorous and conversational even as the tragedy builds.
His hyper-masculinity couldn’t be any more different than Pee-wee’s whimsical aloofness, so seeing two characters that are modeled to feel like complete opposites has an inherent comedic value.
In school, when they do not properly perform Black masculinity, they get teased, bullied and sometimes literally stomped.
Common combinations with masculinity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- toxic masculinity 55×
- of masculinity 39×
- masculinity and 30×
- and masculinity 11×
- masculinity is 11×
- masculinity in 6×
- black masculinity 5×
- masculinity which 5×
- about masculinity 4×
- on masculinity 4×