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Manly vs Supervirility - What's the difference?

manly | supervirility |

As an adjective manly

is having the characteristics of a man.

As a noun supervirility is

the quality of being extremely virile or manly.

manly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having the characteristics of a man.
  • Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
  • * Dryden
    • Serene and manly , hardened to sustain / The load of life.
  • * 2001 , Thomas W. Smith, Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (page 86)
    • Without a successful defense of one's city, none of the other virtues would be possible; manly courage seems to be a precondition for anything else worth achieving in life.

    Derived terms

    * manliness

    Antonyms

    * womanly

    supervirility

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being extremely virile or manly
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 15, Stephen Holden, A Crooner Returns, With a Swing in His Heart, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Much of the timbre of a voice whose richness in an earlier era was synonymous with an image of supervirility remains intact. }}

    Related terms

    *supervirile