Meanings (ES + gloss)
hombría • humanidad • masculinidad • virilidad
The state or condition of being a man, as contrasted with being a boy, woman, girl, or nonbinary.
Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt y…
He was a strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood.
masculinidad
All of the men of a given place, area, or any human subgroup (ethnicity, nation, race, religion, family, work crew or ship's crew, etc.) regarded collectively.
(exclusively and universally: only synonymous in cases for which women are excluded, and when the meaning of manhood is universal or worldwide)
During the Second World War, Russia lost a great percentage of its young manhood, giving rise to a great wave of widowhood in the country.
hombría
The self-concept of a man being with respect to his possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness; a man's sense or view of himself as being more or less manly.
I feel that when you boss me around, you insult my manhood.
The failure of William's business seems to have been quite damaging to his manhood.
masculinidad • virilidad
The male genitalia, especially the penis.
In the course of a journey the Rabbis [...] came across a young man who had been robbed of his manhood and made a eunuch by a certain witch.
She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood.
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