feminize
/ˈfɛmɪnaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Parabiosis experiments on primitive vertebrates showed inversion of sex in either direction, males were feminized and females masculinized."
- "The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen."
- "For a start, it feminizes Tarquin by drawing on the conventional gendering of the human soul as female (Donne's 'Batter my heart . . .' offers an obvious but interesting comparison), and implies that his physical assault on Lucrece has both offended against his own body and contaminated, almost violated, his spiritual and 'female' self. Rape has almost been self-rape."
- "Surgical interventions for gender dysphoria, according to WPATH, can include feminizing or masculinizing hormone therapy, voice therapy, chest augmentation and reduction, or genital surgery."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ Proto-Italic *θēmanā Proto-Italic *fēmanā Latin fēmina Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English feminize From Latin fēmina (“woman, female”) + English -ize.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɛmɪnaɪz/
- British English: /ˈfɛmɪnaɪz/