Virile vs Supervirility - What's the difference?
virile | supervirility |
Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.
The quality of being extremely virile or manly
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As an adjective virile
is being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.As a noun supervirility is
the quality of being extremely virile or manly.virile
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* nonvirileDerived terms
* virility ----supervirility
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