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Definition of Maleness

1. Noun. The properties characteristic of the male sex.

Definition of Maleness

1. Noun. The condition of being male; masculinity. ¹

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Definition of Maleness

1. the quality of being a male [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maleness

Literary usage of Maleness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sex & Character by Otto Weininger (1907)
"A woman's demand for emancipation and her qualification for it are in direct proportion to the amount of maleness in her. ..."

2. Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1911)
"When an ovum bearing maleness meets the invariably maleness-bearing sperm, ... So far as sex is concerned, he is made of maleness plus maleness; ..."

3. Notes to Transformation: A Guidebook on the Inner Journey to the Self by John James (1994)
"... ii OUR LOST GENDER How women reject their maleness and men their femaleness. The male without the female is only half a body, for neither can bring ..."

4. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1920)
"But, on the whole, the correlation in degree of maleness (or femaleness) between the different secondary sex-characters in an individual is not very large ..."

5. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"He accordingly concludes, in agreement with Riddle, Banta, and Goldschmidt, that sex is a labile, reversible character; that maleness and femaleness, ..."

6. Sex, Its Origin and Determination: A Study of the Metabolic Cycle and Its by Thomas E. Reed (1913)
"It is desirable that attention be more particularly directed to the rejection by them of all theories of "inherent maleness or female- ness," and their ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"He is permitted to call its members stamens, and in their ; maleness ' his professor of horticulture has led him to believe. Very good. ..."

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