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発音

• (GenAm) IPA: /ˌmæskjəˈlɪnɪti/

名詞

masculinity (usually uncountable, plural masculinities)

1. The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness.

   Over time, society's ideas of masculinity has greatly broadened.

   • 1971, American Journal of Psychotherapy, volume 25, page 657:

     Of the six homosexual patients, three men finally overcame the underlying vaginaphobia, increased their heterosexual activities, and enhanced their masculinity.

   • 2013, Elisabetta Girelli, Montgomery Clift, Queer Star, page 33:

     Steven Cohan highlights the suggestive qualities of Red River's dominant narrative, the opposition between the radically different masculinities Clift and Wayne represent: "the highly charged context between the soft boy and the hard man in Red River dramatizes such a shift in the mainstream culture's demands upon masculinity".

   • 2021 January 9, Sandee LaMotte, “Valuing male dominance may predict support for Trump, study says”, in CNN‎:

     “What this work shows is that masculinity is not just an ideology that men strive to achieve. It’s something we value as a culture,” said lead author Theresa Vescio, a professor of psychology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University.

反意語

• feminility
• feminineness
• womanlikeness

派生語

関連する語

• male
• masculine
• masculinize
• masculinization