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Macho vs Machoness - What's the difference?

macho | machoness |

As nouns the difference between macho and machoness

is that macho is a macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado while machoness is the quality of being macho; machismo.

As an adjective macho

is tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily and histrionically tough.

macho

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily]] and [[histrionic, histrionically tough

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado.
  • The striped mullet of California ().
  • A male llama.

    • Derived terms

    * macho man * machoism

    Related terms

    * machismo * machoman

    Anagrams

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    machoness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being macho; machismo.
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