0 the qualities or appearance thought to be typical of a man:
My wife has never complained about my manliness.
The emotionally complex male figures in movies created a new model of manliness.
He had a deep sense of inferiority and seemed to question his own manliness.
As a way of showing manliness, he deliberately made himself sound clipped and tough.
At first he had doubts about the manliness of reciting poetry before a crowd.
