virility - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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

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

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.

   • 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