Definition of Masculine

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Masculine

Of the male sex; not female.

Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.

Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.

Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.

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Masculine Quotations

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Charles Baudelaire

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
Corita Kent

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de Lenclos

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Karl Kraus

Masculine Translations

masculine in Afrikaans is manlik
masculine in Danish is mandlig
masculine in Dutch is mannelijk
masculine in French is masculin
masculine in Italian is maschile
masculine in Spanish is varonil
masculine in Swedish is maskulin

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