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Masculinity is manly character (manliness). It specifically describes men; that is, it is personal and human, unlike male which can also be used to describe animals, or masculine which can also be used to describe noun classes. When masculine is used to describe men, it can have degrees of comparison—more masculine, most masculine. The opposite can be expressed by terms such as unmanly, epicene or effeminate.
Cicero wrote that "a man's chief quality is courage." Virility (from Latin la:vir, man...
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