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Masculinity vs Feminity - What's the difference?

masculinity | feminity |

As nouns the difference between masculinity and feminity

is that masculinity is the degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness while feminity is (archaic) femininity.

masculinity

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness

    • Derived terms

    * hypermasculinity

    feminity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Femininity.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
  • *:vnto Psyche with great trust and care / Committed her, yfostered to bee, / And trained vp in true feminitee [...].