feminize

English

Alternative forms

• femininize, femininise, feminise

Etymology

From Latin fēmina (“woman, female”) +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛmɪnaɪz/

Verb

feminize (third-person singular simple present feminizes, present participle feminizing, simple past and past participle feminized)

1. (transitive) To make (more) feminine.
   • 1962, Human Intersex, D J B Ashley:

     Parabiosis experiments on primitive vertebrates showed inversion of sex in either direction, males were feminized and females masculinized.

2. (intransitive) To become (more) feminine.

Synonyms

• femalize

Antonyms

• masculinize, masculinise
• masculize, masculise

Derived terms

• feminization

Translations

to make (more) feminine

• Arabic: أَنَّثَ (ʔannaṯa)
• Catalan: feminitzar (ca)
• Finnish: naisellistaa
• French: féminiser (fr)
• Galician: feminizar (gl)
• German: feminisieren, verweiblichen (de)
• Greek: εκθηλύνω (el) (ekthilýno)
• Hungarian: nőiessé tesz
• Italian: femminilizzare (it)
• Korean: 여성화(女性化)하다 (yeoseonghwahada)
• Polish: feminizować (pl) impf, sfeminizować (pl) pf, ukobiecać impf, ukobiecić pf
• Portuguese: feminizar (pt)
• Spanish: feminizar
• Swedish: feminisera (sv)

to become (more) feminine

• Catalan: feminitzar-se (ca)
• Finnish: naisellistua, naisistua
• Galician: feminizarse (gl)
• German: feminisieren, verweiblichen (de)
• Greek: εκθηλύνομαι (el) (ekthilýnomai)
• Korean: 여성화(女性化)되다 (yeoseonghwadoeda)
• Polish: sfeminizować się (pl) pf, ukobiecić się pf
• Portuguese: feminizarse
• Spanish: feminizarse
• Swedish: feminiseras (sv)

Galician

Verb

feminize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of feminizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

feminize

1. inflection of feminizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative