virility

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: vi=ril=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

virility, n. [L. virilitas: cf. F. virilité.].

 The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

virility

adulthood, adultness, age of consent, amperage, armipotence, authority, beef, black power, brute force, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, dint, drive, driving age, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, flower of age, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full age, full blast, full bloom, full force, full growth, fullgrownness, grown-upness, influence, legal age, legalis homo, machismo, main force, main strength, majority, mana, manhood, manlihood, manly vigor, mature age, maturity, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, prime, prime of life, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, ripe age, riper years, sexual power, sinew, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, toga virilis, ultramasculinity, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virileness, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, womanhood, womanlihood, years of discretion

ROGET THESAURUS

virility

Adolescence

N adolescence, pubescence, majority, adultism, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age, flower of age, prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life, man, woman, adult, no chicken, adolescent, pubescent, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult, womanly, matronly, marriageable, nubile, Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose.