Adjective : mannish clothing styles for women; a mannish voice. ,a mannish youth.    From Dictionary.com. 

As for me, my "mannishness" (there is no other word expressive of it) was such that, forgetting what an insignificant chit I was, I actually attempted to accompany the troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The end of an era,] Reference

The HUMAN BEING is the text of revelation, which is contextually understood, but universal mannishness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sparring with Jesus] Reference

Job understood "his place", as man, and yet, he did not disregard his mannishness in his quetioning and pursuit to understand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keith Ward, Big Questions in Science and Religion 2: How Will the Universe End?] Reference

Beyond this lies the fact that womanliness is opposed to mannishness, and that unwomanliness grows faster than its virtuous opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

 And the undue attention that she is clearly giving to maintaining her upright posture helps me fancy that she knows that, despite her occasional mannishness, I intuit an inner loveliness that awaits my gentle touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Thoughts on the Oedipus Complex] Reference

No affectation, nor pedantry, nor mannishness to mar the effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Anecdotes] Reference

Oh, yes, there was no mistake, for all the mannishness of her clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Unaga] Reference

"I don't approve of so much mannishness in a girl," Mrs. Underhill said decisively.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl of Long Ago] Reference

Sometimes, he adds, her mannishness may approach reckless brutality, and her courage becomes rashness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference

In his young mannishness he was quite sure there was no danger of falling in love; of course such a thing would be wildest folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl of Long Ago] Reference

She was what I should describe as the ideal type of "new" woman, -- tall and athletic, yet without any affectation of mannishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Bullet] Reference

At the same time, the spectator must needs admit there was something else in Lady Dunstable's talk than mere intelligence or mere mannishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Great Success] Reference

He had loved her since the time when she was an overgrown girl of twelve years, and he a squire about her father's house learning mannishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay] Reference

So careful hitherto of feminine grace and decorum, she began to affect a mannishness of bearing, a bluntness of speech, such as found favour at De Crespigny.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference

For you must know that in childhood almost, through a precocious mannishness and a desire of experimental knowledge, I commenced the habit of tobacco-chewing, and the vice born of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3] Reference

While inverted women frequently, though not always, convey an impression of mannishness or boyishness, there are no invariable anatomical characteristics associated with this impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference

Here the poor Abbess, indignation overcrowding her borrowed mannishness, began to sniffle and to assert that the speaker was a faithless pig, but Villon, unheeding her whimpers, went on with his tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [If I Were King] Reference

She had dropped the habit, when I was a shy and undemonstrative schoolboy, but had resumed it happily during the last two years, for, by then, I had learnt in my growing mannishness to delight in half-protectingly, half-childishly stroking and embracing her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tell England A Study in a Generation] Reference

I hate women in stiff collars and shirts and ties and mannishness like that; and indeed I hate -- I dislike men -- I can't stand them, not in that way, if you understand what I mean -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [This Freedom] Reference

I'll be sure of that, "with an assumption of mannishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference

The Interview editor says in the magazine: "Efron radiates a sort of well-scrubbed young mannishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [WALEG] Reference

I don't think mannishness is a very nice quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference