hypermasculinity
noun
hypermasculinity is a noun meaning “exaggerated masculine behavior or traits, especially strength and those of a violent, dominant, or sexual nature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-M-A-S-C-U-L-I-N-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypermasculinity is hypermasculinities.
What does hypermasculinity mean?
noun
- 1
exaggerated masculine behavior or traits, especially strength and those of a violent, dominant, or sexual nature
These images glamourized and normalized violent standards of hypermasculinity
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypermasculinity
- hypermasculinities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypermasculinity?
Hypermasculinity appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hypermasculinity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hyper-masculinité |
| German | Hypermaskulinität, Machoverhalten |
| Spanish | hipermasculinidad |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hypermasculinity come from?
From hyper- + masculinity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).