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gender vs masculinity

masculinity vs gender

gender and masculinity both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
gender Yes No No No
masculinity Yes No No No
As nouns, masculinity is a hyponym of gender; that is, masculinity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gender:
  • gender: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
  • masculinity: the properties characteristic of the male sex
Other hyponyms of gender include maleness, androgyny, bisexuality, hermaphroditism, femaleness, feminineness.
gender (noun) masculinity (noun)
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles the properties characteristic of the male sex
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men
Difference between gender and masculinity

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