virility

From virile +‎ -ity, from Middle French virilité, from Latin virīlitās.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

virility (countable and uncountable, plural virilities)

1. The state of being virile.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234:

     Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.

2. Manly character, quality, or nature.
3. The ability of a man to procreate.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:

     The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.

• masculinity

• femininity
• muliebrity

• viropause

• virile