The term "maleness" refers to the traits, characteristics, and behaviors that are typically associated with men. Some antonyms for "maleness" are femininity, womanliness, and gentleness. Femininity is associated with qualities such as sensitivity, grace, and elegance, often stereotypically linked to women. Womanliness is more about having traits like nurturing, compassion, and intuition than masculinity. Gentleness is opposite of roughness, aggression, and assertiveness that typically characterize "maleness." Moreover, other antonyms for "maleness" might include softness, passivity, and deference, indicating a lack of dominance and power associated with masculine traits in the traditional sense.

What are the antonyms for Maleness?

• n.

  • attribute
  • femaleness
  .
  • femininity
  • Feminality
  ,
  • Femineity
  ,
  • docilities
  ,
  • docility
  ,
  • feminalities
  ,
  • femineities
  ,
  • womanhood
  ,
  • womanliness
  ,
  • womanlinesses
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  • girlishness
  • femininity
  .
  • noun
  • feminineness
  .
  • virility
  • weakness
  .

Usage examples for Maleness

Famous quotes with Maleness

• Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

  Andrew Cohen
• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  David Herbert Lawrence
• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  D. H. Lawrence
• a short work of psychological, literary and anthropological speculation by the poet Robert Bly, dominated the best-seller list for nearly a year and made, as we shall see, a significant impact on many aspects of American life. In England, it made no impression whatever. … We are British over in Britain, we are skeptical, ironical, , and are not given, as Americans are, to seeking expert advice on basic matters. Especially such matters as our manhood. In England, maleness itself has become an embarrassment: male consciousness, male pride, male rage, we don't want to hear about.

  Martin Amis
• You cannot be objective about this because you have been indoctrinated, sermonized, drenched, imbued, inculcated and policed on the matter since first you wore blue booties. You come from a time and place in which the maleness of the male, and the femaleness of the female, and the importance of their difference, were matters of almost total preoccupation.

  Theodore Sturgeon

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