noun

1. The state or condition of being a human being

   “He feared the speedy decline of all manhood.”

2. The state or condition of being an adult male human being, as distinguished from a child or a woman. Compare adulthood. Contrast womanhood and childhood.

   “He was a strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood.”

3. All of the adult male human beingss of a given locality, region, district, country, nation or state, or all of the adult male humans pertaining to a given human subgroup (culture, race, ethnicity, lineage, family, etc.), regarded collectively

Synonyms: humanity, junk, manfulness, manliness, mannishness, mankind