Virility is manly strength and sexual vigour. A symbol of virility.
It is now used more in advertising and in mockery than as any serious description. The Latin root behind it is simply the word for a man, which is why so much cultural baggage attaches to it.
1nounvirilityManly strength and sexual vigour.
“The whole car was sold on virility and nothing else.”
virility is a quality.
Latin virilitas comes from vir, a man, which also gives English virile and the older word virago.
Latin
virīlitās
Middle French
virilité
English, today
virility
From virile + ity, from Middle French virilité, from Latin virīlitās.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA