virility

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French virilité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin virīlitās

Pronunciation

• enPR: və.rĭʹlĭ.tē, IPA^(key): /vəˈɹɪlɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

virility (countable and uncountable, plural virilities)

1. The state of being virile.
2. Manly character, quality, or nature.
3. The ability of a man to procreate.

Synonyms

• masculinity

Antonyms

• femininity
• muliebrity

Related terms

• virile

Translations

the state of being virile

• Bengali: পুরুষত্ব (puruśotto)
• Catalan: virilitat f
• Esperanto: vireco
• Finnish: miehekkyys (fi)
• French: virilité (fr) f
• Galician: virilidade (gl) f
• Georgian: მამაკაცურობა (mamaḳacuroba), კაცურობა (ḳacuroba), ვაჟკაცურობა (važḳacuroba)
• German: Männlichkeit (de) f
• Greek: ανδρότητα f (andrótita), ανδρισμός (el) m (andrismós)
• Hindi: मर्दानगी (hi) f (mardāngī)
• Interlingua: virilitate
• Italian: virilità (it) f
• Korean: 정력 (jeongnyeok)
• Latin: virīlitās f
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• Latvian: vīrišķība f, vīrišķīgums m
• Lithuanian: vyriškumas m
• Persian: مردانگی (fa) (mardânegi)
• Polish: męskość (pl) f
• Portuguese: virilidade f
• Romanian: virilitate (ro) f
• Russian: му́жественность (ru) f (múžestvennostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: mužévnōst (sh) f, муже́вно̄ст f
• Spanish: virilidad f
• Swedish: virilitet (sv)
• Tagalog: bulog, lakas-lalaki
• Tajik: мардонагӣ (tg) (mardonagi)
• Turkish: erkeklik (tr)
• Urdu: مردانگی f (mardāngī)

manly character

• Finnish: miehuus (fi)
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• Georgian: მამაკაცურობა (mamaḳacuroba), კაცურობა (ḳacuroba), მამაკაცურობა (mamaḳacuroba)
• German: Mannhaftigkeit f, Männlichkeit (de) f, Männlichsein n, männliche Beschaffenheit f

ability to procreate

• Finnish: lisääntymiskykyisyys
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• Georgian: სიმწიფე (simc̣ipe), მომწიფებულობა (momc̣ipebuloba)
• German: Manneskraft (de) f, Zeugungskraft f, Geschlechtspotenz f, Potenz (de) f, Virilität (de) f, Mannheit f