Synonyms for manhood
ˈmæn hʊdman·hood

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1. manhoodnoun

   The state of being man as a human being.

   He feared the speedy decline of all manhood.

   Synonyms:
   mankind, humanity

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1. manhood

   Synonyms:
   humanity, virility, maturity, manfulness, manliness

   Antonyms:
   divinity, womanhood, childhood, childishness

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1. manhoodnoun

   the state of being a man; manly qualities

   Synonyms:
   humanity, humanness

2. humanness, humanity, manhoodnoun

   the quality of being human

   "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"

   Synonyms:
   mankind, man, humankind, humanity, human beings, humanness, world, humans, human race

3. manhoodnoun

   the status of being a man

   Synonyms:
   humanity, humanness

Matched Categories

1. • Adulthood
   • Position
   • Quality

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1. manhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   virility

2. manhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   courage, bravery, hardihood, firmness, resolution

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1. manhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   maturity, majority, man's estate, manliness, fortitude, resolution, manfulness, virility, humanity, men

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1. List of paraphrases for "manhood":

   virility, manliness, masculinity

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1. Kevin Powell:

   This certainly began with Magic Johnson, an American sports hero and icon, announcing he was HIV-positive, this was dramatic, historic, a game-changer because other men, like Rock Hudson, Freddie Mercury, and Arthur Ashe, kept their HIV status mostly to themselves because of oppressive definitions of manhood, because of homophobia in the cases of Hudson and Mercury.

2. Benjamin Disraeli:

   Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

3. D. H. Lawrence:

   I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

4. Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi":

   It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

5. C. C. Colton:

   How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.