hypermasculine

adjective

hy·​per·​mas·​cu·​line ˌhī-pər-ˈma-skyə-lən How to pronounce hypermasculine (audio)
variants or hyper-masculine
: extremely or excessively masculine
a magazine full of hypermasculine ads
… the toy market's discovery that you can sell dolls to boys if you call them action figures and make them hypermasculine.David G. Hartwell
hypermasculinity noun
or hyper-masculinity
Combining macho engineering with the hypermasculinity of the military has wrought disastrous environmental consequences. Joni Seager

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There are too many fans ogling rappers as racist, hypermasculine caricatures who don’t consider the anti-Blackness in demanding artists to live their raps at the expense of their life or freedom. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024 And Donald Trump keeps leaning into a hypermasculine approach to male voters in the final stretch before November. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024 Right-wing artists including Ben Garrison and Jon McNaughton have long illustrated Trump in an absurd light—hulking and hypermasculine or holding a lantern on a boat, like George Washington crossing the Delaware. Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024 The characters live in a hypermasculine environment that venerates bravado, toughness, and aggression. Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for hypermasculine 

Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of hypermasculine was in 1909

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“Hypermasculine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypermasculine. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

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