MUSCULARITY Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

muscularity

noun

as in virility

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Recent Examples of muscularity This diagnosis is not specific to muscularity and is a conglomeration of everything else. — Ashleigh N. Deluca, STAT, 20 Aug. 2026 Sitting at a baby grand piano, Mars prompted swoons with his delivery of the lyrics, his pure voice holding notes with the same muscularity as early in the show. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026 His language and ideas have muscularity. — Christine Baranski, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2025 There’s a muscularity and rhythm to his storytelling. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025 The appeal of muscularity comes with rules. — Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 20 Sep. 2025 Animol can’t match that 2013 drama’s Shakespearean muscularity. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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Noun

Experts believe the statue may have symbolized masculinity, virility, strength, and courage.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026
The transition from farms, the open range, and artisanal workshops to offices and large, impersonal, factories was seen as sapping virility—just as our tiny cubicles and remote workstations are said to do today.

— Michael Kimmel, Time, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of virility

Noun

While fitness tracking companies typically claim consumer data is safe, some tracking apps have already leaked data to Big Tech companies.

— Sparkle Rainey Tribune News Service, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Over the past couple of centuries interest in male muscle development and fitness has peaked during times of economic precarity and conflict.

— Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of fitness

Noun

Treatments follow Thai, Chinese, and Indian healing methods, and the cavernous aqua-therapy lounge with sauna and vitality pool is a blissful hangout after a massage.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
For readers who treat daily routines as compounding investments in long-term vitality, the oral microbiome has become hard to ignore.

— Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of vitality

Noun

His toughness was not in question, though, not after some of those crushing hits.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Hypermasculinity is not simply tied up in an individual’s behavior, but can become embedded within organizational cultures that reward toughness, dominance, risk-taking and silence.

— Pietro A. Sasso, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of toughness

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